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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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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