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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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'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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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 will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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 at best barbarism.
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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