William Tecumseh Sherman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

War is Hell you can NOT refine it!

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine ... War is hell.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

War is at best barbarism.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

In our Country ... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.