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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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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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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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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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