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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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William T. Sherman
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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 may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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. 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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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