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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.
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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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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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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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 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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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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