I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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
-
-
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN