Quotes By William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

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

War is at its best barbarism.

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.

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.

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.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

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

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.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

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.

War is hell.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

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.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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.

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.