Famous William Sherman Quotations

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"War is hell."
by William Sherman
"If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve."
by Gen. William Sherman
"The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature."
by William Sherman Pene du Bois
"Vox populi, vox humbug."
by William Tecumseh Sherman
"War is hell, and I mean to make it so."
by William Tecumseh Sherman
"War is cruel and you cannot refine it."
by William Tecumseh Sherman
"Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman


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