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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 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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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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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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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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 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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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 think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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