William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

War is at best barbarism.

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

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.

War is at its best barbarism.

War is hell.

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

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

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.