Famous Gen William Sherman Quotations

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"If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve."
by Gen. William Sherman
"Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"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. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman


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