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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.
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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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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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
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The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of 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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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