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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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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's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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