You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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