William Tecumseh Sherman

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

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.”

“We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”

“If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.”

“Courage is a soldier's virtue, a captain's knowledge, a general's prudence.”

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

“War is hell.”

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

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

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

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”

“I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.”

“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them sick of war.”