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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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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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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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