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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANBut, 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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War is 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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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 will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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