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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 Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1889)

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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (1889)

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

Telegram (1884)

It will be a thousand years before Grant's character is fully appreciated. Grant is the greatest soldier of our time if not all time.

On Ulysses S. Grant (1885)

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.

Letter to the City of Atlanta (1864)

If they want eternal war, well and good; we accept the issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place.

Letter to R.M. Sawyer (1864)

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