#at

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. ↗

— Elizabeth A. Sherman

#always #american #avoid #brutal #dictators

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#bigot #blacks #catholics #dad #even

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right. ↗

— Elizabeth A. Sherman

#cause #consternation #democrats #obama #policies

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#big #ego #enjoy #got #how

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#am #blood #cry #desolation #fired

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#fame #field #i #i think #killed

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#disaster #easy #every #humiliation #make

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 Sherman

#come #facts #hate #i #into

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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#any #call #come #cracker #danger

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. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes