William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

That cause was one of the worst for which men have ever fought..

In violence, we forget who we are.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

War is not an academic exercise.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

War is a crime perpetrated by hearts hardened like weapons

I will let loose the dogs of hell, Ten thousand Indians, who shall yell And foam and tear, and grin and roar, And drench their moccasins in gore: To these I’ll give full scope and play From Ticonderoga to Florida

The wounded wailing in the sun, The dead, the dust, the flies. The flies! Oh God, the flies That soiled the sacred dead, To see them swarm from dead men's eyes And share the soldiers' bread ., Nor think I now forget The filth and stench of war,.

Wars of extermination are demoralizing and wicked.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.