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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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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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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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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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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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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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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