William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is at its best barbarism.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Best, War, Barbarism

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

Peace, War, Known

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Him, Accept, Create

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

Great, War, Against

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

Keep, Eat, Army

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.
William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Fear, Humble, Pride

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Anybody, Scenes

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Today, Hell

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Serious, Matter

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Cannot, Terms

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 8, 1820

Died: February 14, 1891

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