Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

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• But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
• The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward…
• The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
• Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
• 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…
• He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,…
• I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
• We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
• The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than…
• I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.
• 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…
• We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be…
• In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place…
• I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly…
• There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty…
• But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of…
• It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set…
• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all…
• Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the…
• We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

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