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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 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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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.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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 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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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, and you cannot refine it.
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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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