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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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 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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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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 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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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