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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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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 scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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