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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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 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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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