If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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