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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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William T. Sherman
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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.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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 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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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.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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