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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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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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 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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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