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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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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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 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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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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 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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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I intend to make Georgia howl.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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