I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANFear is the beginning of wisdom.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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War is hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 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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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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