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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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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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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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