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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.

William Tecumseh Sherman
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William Tecumseh Sherman's Popular Quotes

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with o…

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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 ca…

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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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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.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounde…

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The only good Indian is a dead Indian

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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.

- William Tecumseh Sherman
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