War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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