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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.

William Tecumseh Sherman quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman quotes: 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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

War is at its best barbarism.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

War is at best barbarism.

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

William Tecumseh Sherman quotes: 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.

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.

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

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

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

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

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

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

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

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

William Tecumseh Sherman quotes: We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

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

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

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

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

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

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

William Tecumseh Sherman quotes: 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 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.

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