William Tecumseh Sherman quotes - page 3

I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl! (William Tecumseh Sherman)
If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war. View quote
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We do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and, if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it. View quote
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
I hereby state, and mean all I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve. View quote
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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. View quote
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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. View quote
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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. View quote
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir. View quote
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War is at its best barbarism. View quote
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It will be a thousand years before Grant's character is fully appreciated. Grant is the greatest soldier of our time if not all time. (William Tecumseh Sherman)
Letter to his wife (2 June 1863), as quoted in "The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations" (2005) edited by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. View quote
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At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah, Fernandina, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville, the blacks may remain in their chosen or accustomed vocations; but on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves, subject only to the United States military authority, and the acts of Congress. By the laws of war, and orders of the President of the United States, the negro is free, and must be dealt with as such. View quote
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Three years ago by a little reflection and patience they could have had a hundred years of peace and prosperity, but they preferred war; very well. View quote
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If they want eternal war, well and good; we accept the issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place. View quote
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And let it be known that if a farmer wishes to burn his cotton, his house, his family, and himself, he may do so. But not his corn. We want that. View quote
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A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence. View quote
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You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth - right at your doors. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better. View quote
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I am a damned sight smarter man than Grant. View quote
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I'll tell you where he beats me though and where he beats the world. He doesn't give a damn about what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell. (William Tecumseh Sherman)
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. View quote
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I assert that no army ever did more for that race than the one I commanded at Savannah. View quote
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No rebels shall be allowed to remain at Davis Mill so much as an hour. View quote
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In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. View quote
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