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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.
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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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