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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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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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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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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
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We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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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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If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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 forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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