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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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!
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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