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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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 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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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