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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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There 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.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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