Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lew Wallace

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

James Stockdale

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Because our task is not to outnumber the Methodists but to win the world-a world in which every day there are more lost persons than the day before.

John Buford

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

Curtis LeMay

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

Curtis LeMay

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

John Abizaid

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Lewis Cass

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

Jackson was not a popular professor. He had rigid notions of discipline, and was uncompromising in his enforcement of the rules of the Institute.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

James Stockdale

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.

Henry Knox

Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.

Oliver North

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

James Longstreet

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you!

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

John Abizaid

The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in.

Daniel Morgan

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

Daniel Morgan

I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs.

John Abizaid

Yet, we believe that that's probably the vigilance of Iraqi security forces and some of our proactive measures the night before probably saved lives.

Bo Gritz

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

Joshua Chamberlain

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

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 Antietam took place.

Joshua Chamberlain

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

Joshua Chamberlain

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Joshua Chamberlain

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.