“Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”
Courage
“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.”
ChangeAll Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
War“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
War“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”
War“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”
War“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”
War“War is at its best barbarism.”
War“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.”
Peace“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“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.”
Truth“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
War“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.”
Fear“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
War“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”
Christmas“War is hell.”
War“But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.”
Peace“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.”
War“If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.”
Politics“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”
War“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”
War