If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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 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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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