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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.
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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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