https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:36:20 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/8507/ https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/8507/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:47:03 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=8507 When one professes [courage] too openly, by words or bearing, there is reason to mistrust it.

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American military leader and author
Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, ch. 25 (1875) ]]> https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/8507/feed/ 0 8507 https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/8987/ https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/8987/#respond Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:59:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=8987 I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to incur it.

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American military leader and author
Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, ch. 25 (1875) ]]> https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/8987/feed/ 0 8987 https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/7867/ https://wist.info/sherman-william-t/7867/#respond Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:14 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=7867 If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American military leader and author
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