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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 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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War is at best barbarism.
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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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.
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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 knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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