67 Quotes by William T. Sherman

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, – Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

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.

War is at best barbarism.

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

It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.