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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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
Thing
Whipped
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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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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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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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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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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