I 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 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
-
-
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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 -
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN -
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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