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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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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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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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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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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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