War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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 the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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