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Quotes from Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman — William Tecumseh Sherman

1820–1891 United States

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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1889)

I assert that no army ever did more for that race than the one I commanded at Savannah.

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1889)

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1889)

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