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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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Lawyer
Military Officer
U.S. General
William T. Sherman
General Sherman
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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