William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

I intend to make Georgia howl.

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman

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