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Letter "W" » William T. Sherman Quotes
«If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.»
«There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.»
«If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.»
«An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.»
«I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.»
«The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.»
«The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.»
«A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.»
«War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine... War is hell.»
«There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.»