Joshua Chamberlain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Noble #Deeds #Noble Deeds
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Men #Ideas #Leader
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Plans
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Horse #War #Men
A radiant fellowship of the fallen.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#War #History #Fellowship
The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#War #Men #Enemy
I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#War #Virginia #Blood
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Men #Fire #Wings
We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Sight #Heaven #Scene
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#War #Silence #President
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Memorial Day #Hero #Heart
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#College #Wish #Hardship
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Courage #Hurt #Humble
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Light #Self #Cherish
But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Men #Hands #Order
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Men #Self #Giving
I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest â€” so sweetly and so surely.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Heart #Joy
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of soulsâ€¦ generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Dream #Heart #Soul
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Men #Technology #Fire
But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
-- Joshua Chamberlain

#Causes #Higher

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