Quotes By William Tecumseh Sherman

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

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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.

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

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

War is at its best barbarism.