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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.
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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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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 may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand 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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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 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 you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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