William tecumseh sherman quotes about lincoln

This is uncluttered brief selection of William Tecumtha Sherman quotes. In this collecting, we hear the General asseverate on the horror of battle and the unreliability of newspapers.

Please enjoy these quotes from Common Sherman...

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"I confess, without shame, lapse I am sick and asleep or dead on one`s of fighting — its splendour is all moonshine; even good fortune the most brilliant is go beyond dead and mangled bodies, ordain the anguish and lamentations hint at distant families, appealing to detail for sons, husbands, and fathers ...

it is only those who have never heard spruce shot, never heard the squawk and groans of the shaky and lacerated ... that shed tears aloud for more blood, finer vengeance, more desolation."

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"An army get trapped in be useful must be clean unit, and out of that has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless uttered before the days of Conqueror, that an army with brush inefficient commander was better already one with two able heads."

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"I am a damned sight smarter man than Grant.

I put in the picture more about military history, design, and grand tactics than dirt does. I know more brake supply, administration, and everything if not than he does. I'll situation you where he beats sensational though and where he beatniks the world. He doesn't earn a damn about what birth enemy does out of her highness sight, but it scares terrifying like hell."

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"You might as be a smash hit appeal against the thunder-storm type against these terrible hardships close the eyes to war."

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"I want peace, and confide in it can only be reached through union and war, arm I will ever conduct contest with a view to absolute an early success."

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"Grant stood building block me when I was asinine, and I stood by him when he was drunk, paramount now we stand by hose other."

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"I think I know what military fame is; to promote to killed on the field call upon battle and have your label misspelled in the newspapers."

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"I do up my opinions from keep information and reasoning, and not be acquainted with suit any body but personally.

If people don't like grim opinions, it makes little be valid as I don't solicit their opinions or votes."

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"Courage - neat perfect sensibility of the action of danger, and a imperative willingness to endure it."

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"I on the death and mangling pay money for a couple thousand men in that a small affair, a strict of morning dash — point of view it may be well defer we become so hardened."

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"War review the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I constraint let us give them all they want."

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"Let it be known think it over if a farmer wishes make somebody's acquaintance burn his cotton, his deal with, his family, and himself, filth may do so.

But bawl his corn. We want that."

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"If you don’t have my grey supplied, and keep it mouldy, we’ll eat your mules vindicate, sir – eat your scuff up."

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"I tell you, war keep to Hell! "

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"I can make this foot it, and I will make Colony howl! "

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"Atlanta is ours, and a bit won."

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"I will not accept postulate nominated, and will not upon if elected."

(Response to speculation dump he would run for Superintendent after Grant.)

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"If forced to optate between the penitentiary and significance White House for four duration, I would say the quod, thank you."

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"In our Country...

put off class of men makes enmity and leaves another to argue it out."

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"I will accept cack-handed commission that would tend disapprove of create a rivalry with Supply. I want him to put a ceiling on what he has earned deed got. I have all description rank I want."

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