War Quote by Ron Chernow

“As far as I could tell, Mount Sherman had no ego, no desire to create its own destiny. It was surrendered, as all of…

— Jan Karon

“there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last judgment has…

— Raoul Vaneigem

“Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.”

— Bill Willingham

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”

— E.H. Chapin

“Sherman’s army, after all the depletions, numbered about sixty thousand effective men. All weak men had been left to hold the rear, and those…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions…

— Iain M. Banks

“War diminished you. It chipped chunks from your soul, took the man and molded him into a darker shadow of his real self. But”

— David Leadbeater

“War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.”

— Williams Robin Professor Keating

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,…

— Jay Allan

“But as those who lived through the Civil War died off, Grant’s reputation faltered. ... A generation that remembered war as mustard gas and…

— Brady Carlson

“The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life.”

— Brian Rathbone