Author: William Tecumseh Sherman

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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