If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere 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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThis 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 SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANAn Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN