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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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War is at best barbarism.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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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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