We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
William Tecumseh ShermanThough I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
William Tecumseh ShermanEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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 ShermanMany and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman