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

- William Tecumseh Sherman

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers ca…

- William Tecumseh Sherman

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with o…

- William Tecumseh Sherman

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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

- William Tecumseh Sherman

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they …

- William Tecumseh Sherman

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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 wounde…

- William Tecumseh Sherman