67 Quotes by William T. Sherman

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

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.

We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

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

You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

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

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.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing!