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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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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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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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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 might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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