The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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