More from William Tecumseh Sherman

  1. Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other always.
  2. I can handle a hundred thousand men in battle, and take the City of the Sun, but am afraid to manage a lot in the swamp of San Francisco.
  3. Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and defeat.
  4. 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, th…
  5. Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
  6. 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 r…
  7. An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs this principle weakens the army.
  8. I make up my mind from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little differen…

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