If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is hell.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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