87 Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

War is hell.

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

War is at its best barbarism.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.