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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Home, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.126

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• An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Army, Two, Able

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.934, Library of America

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• It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Civil War, Disagreeable

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, Army, Men

  "Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius".

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• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Civil War, Batteries, Fields

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• The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. 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, but if it has to come, I am there.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Hell, Can Not

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Thinking, Europe, People

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Peace, War, Army

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• You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Talking, People

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Might, Thunderstorm

  General William Tecumseh Sherman (2014). “Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]”, p.829, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Breakfast, Lions, May

  "Henry V". Book by William Shakespeare, Orleans, scene vii, 1599.

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• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Latin, Voice, People

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• War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Badass, Military, War

  "General Sherman's Official Account of His Great March: Through Georgia and the Carolinas".

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• If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Army, Civil War, Mules

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

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• War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Perfect, Objects

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• Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Crazy, American Civil War, Grants

  Dwight Lancelot Clarke, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Smith Turner (1969). “William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker”

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, Want, Rivalry

  William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Believe, Views

  William Tecumseh Sherman (2017). “The Life of Uncle Billy - Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman: Early Life, Memories of Mexican & Civil War, Post-war Period; Including Official Army Documents and Military Maps”, p.569, Madison & Adams Press

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Believe, History

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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!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Boys

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• If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Party, Political, Politics

  Harper's Weekly Interview, June 24, 1871.

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• 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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.126

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• War is at best barbarism.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Barbarism

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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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Confused, Hands

  William Tecumseh Sherman (2015). “Home Letters of General Sherman”, p.130, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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