You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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