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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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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of 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 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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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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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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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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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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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