William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes about War - Page 2

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Though 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.

Many 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.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

War is at best barbarism.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.