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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.
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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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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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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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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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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