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, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell
citado em "Peace, war and you" - Página 20, Jerome Davis - H. Schuman, 1952 - 282 páginas
William Tecumseh Sherman:
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William Tecumseh Sherman Frases famosas
“Em nosso país uma classe de homem move a guerra, e deixa que uma outra classe a lute.”
I notice in our country, one class of people make war and leave others to fight it out.
citado em "Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography" - Página 463 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=48UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA463, Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - C.B. Richardson, 1865 - 512 páginas
“Qualquer tentativa de fazer a guerra mais fácil e segura resultará em humilhação e desastre.”
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Vol. 2 - Página 408 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=5MO4FFydjJ8C&pg=PA408, Gale Cengage Learning, 1875, ISBN 143281303X, 9781432813031
“Guerra é crueldade. É inútil tentar reformá-la. Quanto mais cruel seja, antes terminará.”
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
citado em "Grenville M. Dodge, soldier, politician, railroad pioneer" - página 87, Stanley P. Hirshson - Indiana University Press, 1967 - 334 páginas
military fame is — to be killed on the field of battle and have our names spelled wrong in the newspapers.
citado em "Sherman, fighting prophet", Lloyd Lewis - Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932 - 690 páginas
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, like old Professor Molinard, 1 would say the penitentiary, thank you
citado em "The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies" - página 794, United States. War Dept, Robert Nicholson Scott, Henry Martyn Lazelle - Govt. Print. Off.,1891
Quando convidado a abraçar a carreira política
Para amigo próximo David F. Boyd, entusiasta da causa confederada, ao ouvir sobre a secessão da Carolina do Sul. As palavras foram proféticas com relação ao que aconteceu nos 4 anos seguintes - fonte: Lewis, Lloyd, Sherman: Fighting Prophet, p.138
William Tecumseh Sherman: Frases em inglês
Interview in Harper's Weekly (24 June 1871).
1870s, 1871, Interview (June 1871)
[The actual messages were "Sherman is coming. Hold out," and "General Sherman says hold fast. We are coming."[citation needed] This was changed to "Hold the fort" in a popular hymn by Philip Paul Bliss.]
Signal to Gen. John M. Corse at Allatoona (5 October 1864)
1860s, 1864, Signal to John M. Corse (October 1864)
1860s, 1864, Letter to Henry W. Halleck (September 1864)
Fonte: Letter to Henry W. Halleck https://books.google.com/books?id=HzBCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA367&dq=%22war+is+war+and+not+popularity+seeking%22++%221864%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mtOiVfTpC4uqogTytKPoBQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22war%20is%20war%20and%20not%20popularity%20seeking%22%20%20%221864%22&f=false (September 1864).
“I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.”
Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884, refusing to run in the United States presidential election of that year. As quoted in Sherman's Memoirs, 4th ed. 1891. This is often paraphrased: If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
1880s, 1884, Telegram (1884)
Telegraph to Abraham Lincoln (December 1864), as quoted in Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0940450658 (2008), by Noah Andre Trudeau, New York: HarperCollins, p. 508.
1860s, 1864, Telegram to Abraham Lincoln (December 1864)
“Letter to his wife (2 June 1863), as quoted in "The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations" (2005) edited by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner.”
Vox populi, vox humbug.
1860s, 1863, Letter (June 1863)
Letter to Sheridan (November 1864)
1860s, 1864
1860s, 1864, Letter to James Guthrie (August 1864)
1860s, 1864, Letter to James Guthrie (August 1864)
Retort to a lady of Confederate sympathies, who berated him for the wasting of Mississippi by the Army of the Tennessee during the Meridian Campaign ; cited in The Civil War Generation, Norman K. Risjord, Rowman & Littlefield (2002), p. 143 : ISBN 0742521699</small> , and in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo, Oxford University Press (2012), p. 439 : <small>ISBN 0199843295
1860s, 1864
He cannot be subjected to conscription, or forced military service, save by the written orders of the highest military authority of the department, under such regulations as the President or Congress may prescribe. Domestic servants, blacksmiths, carpenters, and other mechanics, will be free to select their own work and residence, but the young and able-bodied negroes must be encouraged to enlist as soldiers in the service of the United States, to contribute their share toward maintaining their own freedom, and securing their rights as citizens of the United States.
1860s, 1865, Special Field Order No. 15 (January 1865)
1860s, 1864, Letter to the City of Atlanta (September 1864)
1860s, 1864
Fonte: Retort to a lady of Confederate sympathies, who berated him for the wasting of Mississippi by the Army of the Tennessee during the Meridian Campaign ; cited in The Civil War Generation, Norman K. Risjord, Rowman & Littlefield (2002), p. 143 : ISBN 0742521699 , and in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo, Oxford University Press (2012), p. 439 : ISBN 0199843295
