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I intend to make Georgia howl.

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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William T. Sherman
General Sherman
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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 carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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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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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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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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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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