I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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