The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANHe belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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