If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. -William Tecumseh Sherman

 

If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.


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

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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