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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I intend to make Georgia howl.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
— 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
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— William Tecumseh Sherman
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
— 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
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Grant stood by me when I was crazy ...
— William Tecumseh Sherman
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at its best barbarism.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
— William Tecumseh Sherman
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Hold the fort! I am coming!
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine ... War is hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is Hell you can NOT refine it!
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at best barbarism.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
In our Country ... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
— 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
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman