William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

• 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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• In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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• War is at its best barbarism.

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• You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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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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• I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

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• 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.

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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

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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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• 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.

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• He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

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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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• I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

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• 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.

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• I intend to make Georgia howl.

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• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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• But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

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William Tecumseh Sherman (38)

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

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