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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 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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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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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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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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 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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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