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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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 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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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'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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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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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 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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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all 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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 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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