There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh ShermanWe can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
William Tecumseh ShermanAn army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
William Tecumseh ShermanYou mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
William Tecumseh Sherman