If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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