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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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 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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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 the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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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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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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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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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