If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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 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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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