Edwin M. Stanton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Now he belongs to the ages.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#War #Civil War #Age
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Military #Punishment #President
I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Country #Night #Saws
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Breathing #Necks #Bags
If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Men #Two #Enemy
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Dog #War #Bells
A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Men #Fifty #Faces

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
My God! My God! What will the country say?
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
It was not war, it was murder.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

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