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Best War Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
- If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
- 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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
- Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
- I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
- In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
- War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
- I intend to make Georgia howl.
- I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
- The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
- 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…
- He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
- War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
- War is hell.
- 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…
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
- War is at its best barbarism.
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- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood