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 vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William T. ShermanTags: war
I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William T. ShermanTags: fame journalism glory
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William T. ShermanTags: friendship loyalty comradeship
You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William T. ShermanVox populi, vox Humbug.
William T. ShermanTags: public-opinion
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
William T. ShermanWar is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William T. ShermanWar is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.
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 end.
William T. ShermanThere is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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