If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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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.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 hell.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of 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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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