Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANGrant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all 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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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 think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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War is hell.
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