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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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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 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 will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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 people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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