William Tecumseh Sherman

"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."

"I am tired and sick of war."

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."

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

"The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace."

"I believe it is a material question whether the marriage contract is not to be construed strictly."

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk."

"A soldier's duty is to obey."

"The truth is the truth, and nothing else is the truth."

"I think I understand the object of your visit, and I am not here to deceive you."

"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses."

"I would rather die a thousand deaths than submit to live under a government where my word is questioned."

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

"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."

"The great principles of justice are eternal."

"I have always been kind to my men, though firm."

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

"The South wanted war, and a plenty of it, and they have got it."

"We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people."

"My name may be a byword in the South for generations, but that is of no consequence."

"I have no leisure to visit and chat, I am pressed with official duties."

"The real war will never get in the books."

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

"I have seen enough of the glitter and tinsel of this world."

"Patience accomplishes its object while haste fails."

"The moment we stop learning, we stop living."

"I have learned that it is best to be kind and generous."

"Life is short, and we should spend it doing what we believe in."

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"A man cannot be in two places at once."