"If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily……" — William Tecumseh Sherman
"If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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71 Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would…
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those…
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I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success…
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon,…
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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war…
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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More Decline Quotes
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
— Mary Astell
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the…
— Michele Bachmann
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
— Scott Adams
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed…
— Ben Bernanke
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
— Daniel Boone
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
— Luis Bunuel
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It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the…
— Graydon Carter
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
— Adam Ant
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