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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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 want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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