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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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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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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 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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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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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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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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