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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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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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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 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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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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