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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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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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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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