Quotes by : William Tecumseh Sherman

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary....

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

War is at its best barbarism.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses,....

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people,....

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and....

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

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you....