If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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