The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head. — William T. Sherman

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. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Hold the fort! I am coming! — William Tecumseh Sherman

If you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs. — Robert L. O

Courage–a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. — William Sherman

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected. — William Tecumseh Sherman

If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir. — William Tecumseh Sherman

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. — William Tecumseh Sherman

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come–if alive. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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. — William T. Sherman

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. — William Tecumseh Sherman

We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. — William Tecumseh Sherman

War is at its best barbarism. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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. — William Tecumseh Sherman

It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped. — 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. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court. — Robert L. O

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. — 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

Grant stood by me when I was crazy. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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. — William Tecumseh Sherman

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation’s capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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. — William Tecumseh Sherman

War is cruelty. You can’t refine it. — William T. Sherman

War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

If nominated, I won’t run; If elected, I won’t serve. — William Tecumseh Sherman