I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
-
-
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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 -
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is at its best barbarism.
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 -
Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN