You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all 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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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