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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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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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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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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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