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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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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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 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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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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 mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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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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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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