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 SHERMANThere will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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