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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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William T. Sherman
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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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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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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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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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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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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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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War is at best barbarism.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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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 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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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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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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