At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to…

William Tecumseh Sherman
60 citations
At 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 but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail. ✨ Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. The Civil War: A Book of Quotations by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.
Humanity Politics Reading
31

More Author Quotes

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.
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected. ✨ Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, 4th edition, 1891.
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
I 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 Sherman, p.130, BIG BYTE BO … ▶
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes