William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”
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“I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
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“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.”
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“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”
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“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.”
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“A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.”
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“I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
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“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
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“I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.”
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“The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.”
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“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
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“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”
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“There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.”
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“After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.”
-- William Tecumseh ShermanSource : "The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest". Book by John Allan Wyeth, July 1, 1996.
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“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”
-- William Tecumseh ShermanSource : William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.898, Library of America
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“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
-- William Tecumseh ShermanSource : "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.
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“You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.”
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“I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.”
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“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
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“I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.”
-- William Tecumseh ShermanSource : William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America
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“War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.”
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“I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.”
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“Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.”
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“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.”
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“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.”
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“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.”
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“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
-- William Tecumseh ShermanSource : William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.729, Library of America
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“I intend to make Georgia howl.”
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“I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.”
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“If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.”
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
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