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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they 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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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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If nominated, I won't run If elected, I won't serve.
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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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 will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
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