Potomac Quotes
19 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All quiet along the Potomac.
— George B. McClellan
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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
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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
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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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
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They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
— George C. Wallace
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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
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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
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
— James Longstreet
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
— Ben Bradlee
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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: