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.
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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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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 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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