I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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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.
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