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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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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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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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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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