He was not in the least of the type which gets up mass-meetings, makes inflammatory speeches or passes inflammatory resolutions, and then permits over-forcible talk to be followed by over-feeble action.
Contrasting rhetoric with action, this passage describes Grant as a leader who avoided empty talk and ensured his words were backed by deeds.
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