Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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 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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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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