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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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