List of William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

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William Tecumseh Sherman
Total Quotes 78
If nominated, i won't run; if elected, i won't serve.
Running Ifs
War is at best barbarism.
War Barbarism
If nominated by either party, i should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, i should decline to serve.
Party Political Politics
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
War Soldier Matter
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than i will.
War Term Malediction
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and i feel no desire to take a hand therein.
War Confused Hands
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.
Peace War Sacrifice
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with grant. i want him to hold what he has earned and got. i have all the rank i want.
Military Want Rivalry
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
Military War Boys
Though i never ordered it, and never wished for it, i have never shed any tears over the event, because i believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
War Believe History
I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and i will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
War Believe Views
Many and many a person in georgia asked me why we did not go to south carolina; and, when i answered that we were en route for that state, the invariable reply was, - well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of georgia.
War People South Carolina
  • Born: February 8, 1820
  • Died: February 14, 1891
  • Occupation: U.S. General
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