If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve. William Tecumseh Sherman More Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman More Quotes From William Tecumseh Sherman I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive. William Tecumseh Sherman society alive business You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. William Tecumseh Sherman lions may breakfast Grant stood by me when I was crazy. William Tecumseh Sherman american-civil-war grants crazy An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads. William Tecumseh Sherman able army two The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. William Tecumseh Sherman civil-war fields war A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. William Tecumseh Sherman batteries civil-war fields 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. William Tecumseh Sherman pride wisdom humble An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence. William Tecumseh Sherman army military men Hold the fort! I am coming! William Tecumseh Sherman forts war You 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 people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. William Tecumseh Sherman sacrifice war country 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. William Tecumseh Sherman tired gun mean The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. William Tecumseh Sherman voice latin people He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. William Tecumseh Sherman army war peace The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. William Tecumseh Sherman lines expectations way If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve. William Tecumseh Sherman politics political party If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir. William Tecumseh Sherman mules civil-war army You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm. William Tecumseh Sherman thunderstorm might war ...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing. William Tecumseh Sherman bartering robbing trading We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war. William Tecumseh Sherman heart war country Many 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 will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia. William Tecumseh Sherman south-carolina war people
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