War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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