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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.

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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U.S. General
William T. Sherman
General Sherman
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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