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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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 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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
William Tecumseh Sherman
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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