Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

“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.”

“Im inclined to think that a military background wouldnt hurt anyone.”

“The military dont start wars. Politicians start wars.”

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

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.

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.

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

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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

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

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.

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

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

War is hell.

War is at its best barbarism.

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

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