Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
-
-
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN






