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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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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, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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