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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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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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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 will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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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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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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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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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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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