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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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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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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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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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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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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.
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