"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

William Tecumseh Sherman, American Soldier

Courage, Danger, Measure, Sensibility

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"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

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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."

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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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"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."

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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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"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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"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war."

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"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."

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"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are."

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