William Tecumseh ShermanAt first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will… ▶365HumanityPoliticsReading
William Tecumseh ShermanI beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, p.711, Library of America377Time
William Tecumseh ShermanMany and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you… ▶378HumanityPolitics
William Tecumseh ShermanWar's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.291Thought
William Tecumseh ShermanIf 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.357Politics
William Tecumseh ShermanYou 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… ▶336Humanity
William Tecumseh ShermanWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.303Death
William Tecumseh ShermanThere 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 bet… ▶369Thought
William Tecumseh ShermanI 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… ▶3710HumanityTruth
William Tecumseh ShermanWe can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.293Humor
William Tecumseh ShermanI 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.359Truth
William Tecumseh ShermanThe voice of the people is the voice of humbug.305Humanity
William Tecumseh ShermanI see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman (2015). Home Letters of General S… ▶294Reading
William Tecumseh ShermanThe North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingen… ▶327HumanityPoliticsReading
William Tecumseh ShermanIf forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.3510Life
William Tecumseh ShermanI 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… ▶316Sadness
William Tecumseh ShermanYou people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! ✨ Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24… ▶306HumanityPoliticsReading
William Tecumseh ShermanHe belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.251Reading
William Tecumseh ShermanBut, 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 agains… ▶295Truth
William Tecumseh ShermanI intend to make Georgia howl.295Humor
William Tecumseh ShermanGrant stood by me when I was crazy. ✨ Dwight Lancelot Clarke, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Smith Turner (1969). William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker241Death
William Tecumseh ShermanI knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive. ✨ United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Wi… ▶252LifePoliticsThought
William Tecumseh ShermanI 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. ✨ William Tecumseh… ▶3310Death
William Tecumseh ShermanThis 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. 296Humanity
William Tecumseh ShermanCourage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.329Thought
William Tecumseh ShermanIf nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve. ✨ Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, 4th edition, 1891.309Sadness
William Tecumseh ShermanThe war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not s… ▶232DeathReadingTime
William Tecumseh ShermanI want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman (2017… ▶243Life
William Tecumseh ShermanWars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.232Love
William Tecumseh ShermanYou mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without… ▶3110HumanityPoliticsReading
