"We know not of the future and cannot…" — Joshua Chamberlain
"We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much."
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23 Quotes by Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Chamberlain has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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,…
- 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…
- He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He…
- I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
- The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me…
- 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…
- We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you…
- In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to…
More Cannot Plan Quotes
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- One cannot plan for the unexpected. — Aaron Klug