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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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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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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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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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