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General William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say give them all they want.
- General William T Sherman
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
- General Sherman
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your
name misspelled in the newspapers.
- General William T Sherman
Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
- General William T Sherman
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
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
There is many a
[boy] who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You must bear this warning voice to generations to come."
- General William T Sherman
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
- General William T Sherman
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. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
Hold the fort! I am coming!
- General William T Sherman
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
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