Potomac Quotes

19 quotes by 13 authors

In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second… — Stonewall Jackson
All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead,… — Ethel Lynn Beers
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line,… — James Longstreet
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. — Pat Buchanan
All quiet along the Potomac. — George B. McClellan
WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be… — Ambrose Bierce
As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no… — Michelle Malkin
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. — Abraham Lincoln
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,… — Ethel Lynn Beers
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and… — Nancy Gibbs
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' — Lyndon B. Johnson
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. — George C. Wallace
A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his… — Paula Broadwell
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud… — George B. McClellan
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac. — James Longstreet
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood. — Ben Bradlee
WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be… — Ambrose Bierce

Who Wrote These Potomac Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 19 Potomac Quotes as follows: