Sherman Quotes

“Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable-those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To men of the last type their own success is a constant surprise, and its fruits the more delicious, yet to be tested cautiously with a haunting sense of doubt whether it is not all a dream. In that doubt lies true modesty, not the sham of insincere self-depreciation but the modesty of "moderation," in the Greek sense. It”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

“No man of action has more completely attained the point of view of the scientific historian, who observes the movements of mankind with the same detachment as a bacteriologist observes bacilli under a microscope and yet with a sympathy that springs from his own common manhood. In”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

“The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

“Too sane also, to anticipate the World War habit of digging in and clinging on to a depressed and depressing foothold under the enemy's "command."
When”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American