William Tecumseh Sherman

"The nation that loses faith in its youth loses its future."

"Discipline without justice breeds resentment, not obedience."

"The greatest test of leadership is in how one treats those defeated."

"America's strength lies not in its armies, but in its ideals."

"The future of the Union depends on reconciliation, not retribution."

"I am convinced that the Union is perpetual and indissoluble."

"The measure of success is not in conquest, but in preservation."

"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

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

"I believe it is a law of human nature that no man who has not sacrificed for an object can demand others to sacrifice."

"Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for the next four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."

"In our Country one class of men has no claim above another."

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

"There is a manifest destiny in the progress of the human race."

"The greatest wisdom is in knowing one's ignorance."

"A battery of artillery is worth a thousand muskets."

"I realize that unless victory comes with peace it will be a hollow thing."

"I have always endeavored to conduct the affairs of this office with strict integrity."

"The man who has no money is poor, but the man who has nothing but money is poorer still."

"Every attempt to make war easy and comfortable is a mistake."

"I would fight fire with fire and atmosphere with an umbrella."

"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."

"Time is the great arbiter of human affairs."

"The progress of the human race demands that we shall not die for causes of yesterday."

"All that is not law is chaos."

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."

"I would rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the United States Senate."

"Vain hope is a kind of poetry."