William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is not a thing one wants.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War is an abstraction.

This will be a war of extermination.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

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

War is the father of all.

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.