“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”
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Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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