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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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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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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War is at best barbarism.
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I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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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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