Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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 people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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