The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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War is hell.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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There 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.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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