Quotes By William Tecumseh Sherman

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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

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.

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

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.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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

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.

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.

War is hell.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 penitentiary, thank you.

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.

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.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

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.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.