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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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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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. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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