If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANGrant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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War is hell.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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