After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does;… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share
