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
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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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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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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.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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