But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before