If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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