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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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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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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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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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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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