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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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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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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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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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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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 the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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