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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!

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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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War is at best barbarism.
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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 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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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