87 Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

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

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

War is Hell you can NOT refine it!

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

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

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