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

William Tecumseh Sherman
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  3. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. - Thomas Jefferson
  4. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you. - William Tecumseh Sherman
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More Quotes By William Tecumseh Sherman
  1. If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.
  2. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.
  3. I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
  4. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
  5. I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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