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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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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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 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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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