67 Quotes by William T. Sherman

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

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.

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

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

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

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

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.

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