Attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman · The source reads: “War is at best barbarism.… Its glory is all moonshine. 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.” · Graduation address at Michigan Military Academy (June 19, 1879)
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William Tecumseh Sherman · The source reads: “There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”
William Tecumseh Sherman · The source reads: “You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it: and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.” · Letter to James M. Calhoun, mayor of Atlanta (September 12, 1864)
William Tecumseh Sherman · Speech at St. Louis (July 20, 1865)
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Winston Churchill · The source reads: “And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken.…During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How are we going to win? and no one was able to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.” · House of Commons, 18 June 1940
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