William Tecumseh Sherman

"The spirit cannot be conquered by force."

"Wisdom grows through experience and reflection."

"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

"The true military spirit of any nation is only really tested when that nation faces its greatest trial."

"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets in the hands of men not thoroughly drilled."

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard."

"I believe it is a true maxim that whatever strengthens and purifies the union should be cherished."

"The South relied on slave labor, and the North had free labor—one system had to prevail."

"Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental will firm to encounter it."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

"No amount of personal courage can atone for the lack of military preparation."

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine."

"Vain is the hope of any civilization based on slavery and forced labor."

"The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace."

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

"It cannot be in the nature of things to endure when one section is pinned down by another."

"A military man should be subordinate to the civil authority in a republic."

"Patience and perseverance accomplish what strength alone cannot."

"The statistics of suicide confirm my conviction that it is a practicing Christian nation."

"Sensible men are all of the same religion, but sensible men never tell what it is."

"I would rather have a plain man who knows his business than a showy man who doesn't."

"The danger does not come from the pursuit of the extreme, but from not pursuing it far enough."

"It is impossible for any nation that does not educate its youth to advance in knowledge."

"Good men do not become soldiers to get pay. They become soldiers to defend their country."

"There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."

"A nation which does not value its scholars is a nation that will eventually cease to exist."

"The more difficult the work, the greater the necessity for system and order."

"I make the stipulation that we must win, and win decisively."

"War is the remedy that our rulers seem confident will heal all political disease."

"No conquering force has ever held a land in which the people were not willing to be held."