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  1. Discover William Tecumseh Sherman famous and rare quotes. Share military quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman and quotations about war and hell. "War is cruelty. There is no use trying..."

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  2. [168] [169] [170] Before the war, Sherman expressed some sympathy with the view of Southern whites that the black race was benefiting from slavery, although he opposed breaking up slave families and advocated that laws forbidding the education of slaves be repealed.

    • 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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. 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.
    • “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X.
    • “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren.
    • “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes.
    • “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris.
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    1860s

    1. Still on the whole the campaign is the best, cleanest and most satisfactory of the war. I have received the most fulsome praise of all men from the President down, but I fear the world will jump to the wrong conclusion that because I am in Atlanta the work is done. Far from it. We must kill three hundred thousand I have told of so often, and the further they run the harder for us to get them. 1.1. Letter to wife

    1870s

    1. War is Hell. 1.1. This quote originates from his address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy(19 June 1879); but slightly varying accounts of this speech have been published: 1.2. I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two...

    William Tecumseh Sherman, although not a career military commander before the war, would become one of "the most widely renowned of the Union’s military leaders next to U. S. Grant.” Sherman, one o...

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  3. 16 quotes from Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman: ‘You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those...

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  5. This is a brief selection of William Tecumseh Sherman quotes. In this collection, we hear the General speak on the horror of war and the unreliability of newspapers. Please enjoy these quotes from General Sherman... ----------.

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