"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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William Tecumseh Sherman

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“Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached”

Source : David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”
“Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.”
“No scene is ever about the words being spoken.”
“Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
“I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.”
“The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .”
“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.”

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