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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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 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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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