If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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War is hell.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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