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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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody 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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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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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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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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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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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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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 think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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