If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANHe belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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 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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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