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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
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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.
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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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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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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Hold the fort! I am coming!
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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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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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