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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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