William Tecumseh Sherman - About war - 160937

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.“

-William Tecumseh Sherman

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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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