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War 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.
- War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
- You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
- 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 want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect…
- You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
- 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!
- The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
- It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
- Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en…
- War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
- Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
- You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will…
- 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…
- You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
- You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not…
- I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
- I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be…
- 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…
- I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure…
- Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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