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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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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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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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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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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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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