Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
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Source: Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
“Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”
“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.”
“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.”
“You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
Source: Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.”
Source: Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
“There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.”
Source: Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session
“You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.”
Source: Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]
“...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.”