If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 hell.
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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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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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