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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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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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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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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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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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