Yes, I agree. I was commenting that we shouldn’t hold him up as a bastion of verbal temperance. Great patriot, general and President, just not a lightweight when it came to temper and “purity” in language.
The difference is that he considered displays of temper and profane language to be failings, rather than virtues.
If I drop a pot on my foot, I’m likely to yell (blank!). However, I don’t use vulgar invective in every other sentence. (You don’t need “swear words” if you have an Unabridged Dictionary.)