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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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War is at best barbarism.
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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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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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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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