Quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

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.

War is at its best barbarism.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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

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

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

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

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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.

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.

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

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

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.

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

You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.