Attitude Quote by Jean Edward Smith

“He said to me that I might want an officer who had served with me in the West, mentioning Sherman specially, to take his…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the…

— Claudio Magris

“It was good for troops to know their officers were reliable, and that we didn’t hate each other—at least not to a degree that…

— B.V. Larson

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Sherman’s army, after all the depletions, numbered about sixty thousand effective men. All weak men had been left to hold the rear, and those…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

— Bryan Stevenson

“The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition.”

— John Yorke

“Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.”

— William MacLeod Raine