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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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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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 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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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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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 may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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