William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman /tᵻˈkʌmsə/was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 February 1820
CityLancester, OH
CountryUnited States of America
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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.
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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.
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
I intend to make Georgia howl.
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy...
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.