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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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