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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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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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