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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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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'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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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