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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
Banker
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Military Officer
U.S. General
William T. Sherman
General Sherman
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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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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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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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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