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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.
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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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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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 see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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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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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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 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. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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