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

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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

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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

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

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is at its best barbarism.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

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