QUOTES by William Tecumseh Sherman
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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.
Quote by -William Tecumseh Sherman
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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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.
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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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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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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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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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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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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The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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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 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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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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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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