Best quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman on War

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  • I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. 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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
    - 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
  • War is hell.
    - 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
  • He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
    - 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
  • There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • 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
  • You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • War is at its best barbarism.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman
  • 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.
    - William Tecumseh Sherman