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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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