If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
Quote by William Tecumseh Sherman
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If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
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William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
- There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
- War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
- 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.
- 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.
- If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
- War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
- I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
- Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
- 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.
- 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.
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