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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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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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War is at best barbarism.
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