“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”– William Tecumseh Sherman Related Quotes “One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”– Pedro Calderon de la Barca “It is not only the living who are killed in war.”– Isaac Asimov “Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.”– Thucydides