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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.
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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about.
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I think I understand what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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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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I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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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.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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