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Tecumseh Inspirational Quotes (94)

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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
William Tecumseh Sherman
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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.
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You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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... 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.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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