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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 whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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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.
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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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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