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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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William T. Sherman
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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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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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.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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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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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