Stonewall Jackson famous quotes

03-28-2025

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Country #Peace #Military
Never take counsel of your fears.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Fear #Patriotic
Duty is ours; consequences are God's.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#God #Duty #Consequence
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Enemy #Surprise #Charisma
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#War #Rivers #Errors
Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Country #Running #Military
Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Military #Troops #Conquer
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Military #Men #Blood
Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Military #Next #Impossible
I find I like it too much.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#War #History #Too Much
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Alcohol #Taste #Drink
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#War #Evil #Looks
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#War #People #Events
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!
-- Stonewall Jackson

#War #Farewell #Army
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Providence #Duty
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Alcohol #Enemy #Bullets

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