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<\/a><\/p>\n“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.”<\/p>\n
“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now we stand by each other always.”<\/p>\n
“There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”<\/p>\n
“War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”<\/p>\n
“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”<\/p>\n
“I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.”<\/p>\n
“War is hell”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York, NY…William Tecumseh Sherman February 8, 1820 \u2013 February 14, 1891. American Soldier & General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861\u20131865). “If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.” “Grant stood by me when I was crazy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/220px-General_William_T._Sherman_4190887790_cropped.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172852,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172779\/revisions\/172852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}