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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh ShermanWar is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh ShermanYou may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Tecumseh ShermanI am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman