You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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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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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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