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All Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
- 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.
- 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…
- Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
- The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You…
- Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
- After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
- The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never…
- Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
- I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have…
- 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…
- War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
- I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got.…
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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