If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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