Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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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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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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 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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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