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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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William T. Sherman
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More quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of 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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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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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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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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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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