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

William Tecumseh Sherman

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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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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.
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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.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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?
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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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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.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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.
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
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