Best quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman on War
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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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‟ War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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‟ 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 Sherman
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‟ War is hell.
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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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‟ He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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‟ In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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‟ 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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‟ War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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‟ If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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‟ You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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‟ War is at its best barbarism.
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‟ The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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.
- William Tecumseh Sherman