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William Tecumseh Sherman

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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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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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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.
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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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