If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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 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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