If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
-
-
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I intend to make Georgia howl.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN