67 Quotes by William T. Sherman

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

These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day, in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous herds of tame cattle, and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches.

War is cruelty. You can't refine it.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion.

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

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

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.