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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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