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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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!
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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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