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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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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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 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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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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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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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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 whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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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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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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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 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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