Quote #30
The scenes on this field would cure anyone of war.
More from William Tecumseh Sherman
- The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace.
- This war differs from other wars in this particular: We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make young and old, rich and…
- The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capitol reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
- Vox populi, vox humbug!
- My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear…
- War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
- If you get blown up I don't care!
- War is, at its best, barbarism.