Author: William Tecumseh Sherman

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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