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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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 knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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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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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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