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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Hold the fort! I am coming!
William Tecumseh Sherman
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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