William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes About Military

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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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"The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.

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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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"General Sherman's Official Account of His Great March: Through Georgia and the Carolinas".

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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884. "Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman", 4th edition, 1891.

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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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"Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius".

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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.
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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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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1880 Speech at Columbus, Ohio,11 Aug. Quoted in Lloyd Lewis Sherman Fighting Prophet (1932).

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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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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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