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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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"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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"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other."
"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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