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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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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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 way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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