"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
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Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
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"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."
William Tecumseh Sherman"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war."
William Tecumseh Sherman"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
William Tecumseh Sherman"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William Tecumseh Sherman"War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"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."
William Tecumseh Sherman"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."
William Tecumseh Sherman"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
William Tecumseh Sherman"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
William Tecumseh Sherman