"In our Country... one class of men makes……" — William Tecumseh Sherman
"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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71 Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would…
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those…
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I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success…
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon,…
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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war…
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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