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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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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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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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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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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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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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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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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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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'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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