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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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William T. Sherman
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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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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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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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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 way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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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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You people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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