William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

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• War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
• War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
• I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
• You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
• ...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
• You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our…
• I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over…
• An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the…
• I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect…
• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
• You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
• At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be,…
• Grant stood by me when I was crazy...
• We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
• War is Hell you can NOT refine it!
• If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.
• The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

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