Civil war Quote by William Tecumseh Sherman Download Open image “Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.” — William Tecumseh Sherman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war Civilization Crime Culture Folly Madness War
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Many people villainize those who have stood against corrupt systems and have faced the brutal tyranny that is unleashed when people of integrity stand against the sinister agendas of the depraved. Others have blasted those who refused to align themselves with the prolific propagation of toxic ideals and have subsequently faced the wrath of those who (out of their own… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When society does something wrong and extremely immoral, ironically it is not called ‘madness’. For example, ‘sati burning’ and ‘forced conversion into another religion’… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition,… — James A. Connolly Copy Share Image
