Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
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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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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War is hell.
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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 may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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