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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of 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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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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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War is at best barbarism.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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