"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."
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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.“
-William Tecumseh Sherman
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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 cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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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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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
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