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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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William T. Sherman
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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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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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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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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