Thursday, November 2, 2017

Quote of the Day (William Tecumseh Sherman, on Running for President)



“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.” —Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (1822-1891), letter to Gen. Henry W. Halleck, September 1864, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, Second Edition, edited by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson (2006)

In Sherman’s time, it was virtually unthinkable that an occupant of the Oval Office might end up in both the White House and the penitentiary. But then again, Sherman served under a Republican nicknamed “Honest Abe” who sought to preserve the nation from its internal and external enemies, whereas now…

Oh, never mind.

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