William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.