Quotes about war
war numbers division
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
war people soldier
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. William Stafford
war trying events
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile. William Styron
war soldier matter
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. William Tecumseh Sherman
war military boys
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
war civil-war disagreeable
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
war people south-carolina
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
war perfect objects
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
war civilization madness
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
war believe views
I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
war army fighting
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
war term malediction
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
war talking people
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
war evil world
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
war home pride
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.
war believe history
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
war forts
Hold the fort! I am coming!
war people answers
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
war military boys
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
war confused hands
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
war hell can-not
War is Hell you can NOT refine it!
war barbarism
War is at best barbarism.
war hell glory
War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
war fierce tire
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
war son player
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them.. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
war military giving
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
war civil-war fields
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
war might thunderstorm
You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
war fate army
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
war sick passing-away
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
war safe easy
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
war men thinking
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
war next species
The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.