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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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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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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 forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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 people speak so lightly of war you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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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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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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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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