If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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 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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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