A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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