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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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William T. Sherman
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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 you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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