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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 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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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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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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 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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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