If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANFear is the beginning of wisdom.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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