If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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