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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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 only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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