I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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War is hell.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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