Quotes from 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.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

War is at best barbarism.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

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.

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

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

War is at its best barbarism.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.