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
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.
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.