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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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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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