William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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

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.

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.

[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

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

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

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

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

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.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy ...

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

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

War is at its best barbarism.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

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

Hold the fort! I am coming!

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.

War is Hell you can NOT refine it!

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine ... War is hell.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

War is at best barbarism.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

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

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.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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