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.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

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.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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

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.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.