An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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 at its best barbarism.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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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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