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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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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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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 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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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