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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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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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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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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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about.
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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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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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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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