War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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War is hell.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN