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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANFear is the beginning of wisdom.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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.
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War is hell.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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