William Tecumseh Sherman

"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."

"The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war."

"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."

"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."

"I 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."

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

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

"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."

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

"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."