William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

War is hell.

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

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with yo...

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for ...

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the pen...

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses...

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, an...

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, ...

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile peopl...

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a sh...

War is at its best barbarism.