I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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War is hell.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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