James Wolfe famous quotes

03-24-2025

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.
-- James Wolfe

#Running #War
Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
-- James Wolfe

#Gentleman #Lines #Tomorrow
I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.
-- James Wolfe

#Cancer #Mean #One Day
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
-- James Wolfe

#Loss #Choices #Difficulty
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
-- James Wolfe

#Peace
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
-- James Wolfe

#Friends #Country #Believe
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
-- James Wolfe

#Confidence #Rocks #Enemy
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
-- James Wolfe

#Fear #Army #Numbers
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
-- James Wolfe

#Soldier #Troops #France
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.
-- James Wolfe

#Bravery #Soldier #Important
War is an option of difficulties.
-- James Wolfe

#War #History #Difficulty

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