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War is at best barbarism.
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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William T. Sherman
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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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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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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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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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