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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 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.
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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
William Tecumseh Sherman
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
William Tecumseh Sherman
We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
