"War is cruel and you cannot refine it." — William Tecumseh Sherman
"War is cruel and you cannot refine it."
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71 Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman has 71 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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.
- I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would…
- You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
- ...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
- You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those…
- I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success…
- An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon,…
- I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war…
- A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
- The only good Indian is a dead Indian
- The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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- You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those… — William Tecumseh Sherman