I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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