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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.
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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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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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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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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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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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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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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