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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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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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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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