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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 at best barbarism.
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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.
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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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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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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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 have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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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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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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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman
