American civil war Quote by Philibert Orry

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

— Duff Green

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

— Erik Prince

“As a West Point graduate, Grant had enjoyed an insider’s knowledge of military personnel during the war, but as a Washington outsider, he needed…

— Ron Chernow

“If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.”

— Lin Manuel-Miranda

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

— Winston Churchill

Few great men would have got past personnel.

— Paul Goodman

In 2001, we didn't have an army; we had remnants of a dissolved army that had no hope. Our generals had literally become busboys.

— Ashraf Ghani

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly…

— Rene Cassin

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

— Douglas MacArthur

“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now…

— Charles Phillips

One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“He said to me that I might want an officer who had served with me in the West, mentioning Sherman specially, to take his…

— Ulysses S. Grant