Quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

War is at best barbarism…. 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, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.