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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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"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."
"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
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"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace."
"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want."
"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
"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."
"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."
"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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