The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again. — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate the ground for… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars. — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
