Author: William Tecumseh Sherman

Quotes

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

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

- 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

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

- 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

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

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.

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.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

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

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