If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANFear is the beginning of wisdom.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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 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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is hell.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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