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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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 will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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 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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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