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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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 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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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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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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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 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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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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