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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 way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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 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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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