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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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 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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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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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 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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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 will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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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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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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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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