William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

I am tired and sick of war. 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, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

• Scream
• Wounded
• Vengeance
• Desolation
• Groaning
• Moonshine

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• I am tired and sick of war. 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, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Scream
  • Wounded
  • Vengeance