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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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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.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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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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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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