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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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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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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Hold the fort! I am coming!
William Tecumseh Sherman
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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