In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANHe belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is hell.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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