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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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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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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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'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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 the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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