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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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William T. Sherman
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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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