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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.
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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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