I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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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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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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