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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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William T. Sherman
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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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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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 cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to 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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