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William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes about Country

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Country, War, Heart

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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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Country, War, Blood

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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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Country, War, Fighting

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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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Country, War, Sacrifice

Letter to Mayor Calhoun of Atlanta, Ga., and others, 12 Sept. 1864 See Napoleon 11; William Tecumseh Sherman 3

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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

William Tecumseh Sherman

Country, War, Mistake

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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