War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
-
-
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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 -
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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 -
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN