29 Quotes By William Tecumseh Sherman


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

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 on war

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

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

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

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.
William Tecumseh Sherman on wisdom

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
William Tecumseh Sherman on christmas