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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
Banker
Lawyer
Military Officer
U.S. General
William T. Sherman
General Sherman
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Whipped
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War

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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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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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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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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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 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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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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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