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 SHERMANIf I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
-
-
It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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 -
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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 -
This 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 SHERMAN -
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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 -
I intend to make Georgia howl.
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 -
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN






