William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

William Tecumseh Sherman (38)

Birth:	8th February, 1820
Death:	14th February, 1891
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businessman, Educator, Soldier

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• It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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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.

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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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• Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

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• You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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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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• War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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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 I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

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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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• War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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• An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

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• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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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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• Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

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• If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

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• If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.

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• Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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• The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

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• If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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