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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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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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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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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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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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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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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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