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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.
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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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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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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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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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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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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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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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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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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.
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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