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Explore more quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

"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."

"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want."

"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."

"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."

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

"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
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