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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is hell.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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