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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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More quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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 you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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War is at best barbarism.
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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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
William Tecumseh Sherman
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
William Tecumseh Sherman
