Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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