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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.
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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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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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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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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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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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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