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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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.
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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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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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.
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The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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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.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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