If nominated by either party, I should preemptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman