John Brown Gordon famous quotes

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General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?
-- John Brown Gordon

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No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
-- John Brown Gordon

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Mars is not an aesthetic God.
-- John Brown Gordon

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A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
-- John Brown Gordon

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As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.
-- John Brown Gordon

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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.

John Brown Gordon famous quotes

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