William Tecumseh Sherman

"You who have queued in the ranks must remember you are soldiers."

"Every attempt to make war otherwise than destructive to the enemy is sheer nonsense."

"The South deserves all they got and more."

"I hate newspapermen; they have no patriotism."

"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."

"To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi I would slay millions."

"I believe that the United States is bound to have slavery, it is bound to have it until the end of time."

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war."

"I calculate upon the moral power of this community to sustain the measures we shall adopt."

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

"No tears could undo the terrible deeds of war."

"My life as a soldier is over, now I want to live in peace."

"I am tired and need rest."

"The country will shape itself in the end."

"My name may be covered with glory or with blame, but it cannot be forgotten."

"I tell you for certain that we have lost the peace."

"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House, I would choose the penitentiary."

"The amount of money to be expended in our country for military purposes is too much."

"A young officer should be taught that his first duty is obedience."

"War is the remedy for those who insist on it."

"I would make this war as severe as possible and show no symptoms of tiring of it."

"You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war."

"The soldiers of this war had to become butchers rather than soldiers."

"I still think it is the handwriting on the wall."

"The South has done its worst, and has nothing left but hobgoblins."

"The war had to be won, whatever the cost in blood and suffering."

"I could not sit idle while the nation burned."

"That corps is far too weak to justify the great sacrifice it may entail."

"Every nation must have an army of reserve or be conquered."

"The name of the American people is to be exalted upon the earth."