Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

James Stockdale

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.

Oliver North

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Henry Knox

Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.

James Longstreet

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Calamity Jane

In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey.

Janis Karpinski

If you hold thousands of prisoners, you have to feed them, clothe them, care for them, provide medical attention - and there were no provisions.

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

I pride myself upon nothing so much as having never permitted to pass, unrebuked, a slighting remark upon the glorious State that gave me being.

John Buford

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

James Longstreet

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

James Stockdale

I mean, I really think that I would expect somebody that's leading the country to have some kind of - some kind of courage physically, personally.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Janis Karpinski

The findings in the report have been largely discredited because he was not an impartial party and because so much more information has come out.

Nelson A. Miles

The importance of the educational and moral improvement of a race heretofore entirely debarred of its benefits was early considered.

John Buford

A heavy task was before us; we were equal to it, and shall all remember with pride that at Gettysburg we did our country much service.

Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not disprove the sameness of the two things.

Joe Wright

Tom kept saying: 'This is the happiest day of my life!'

Zebulon Pike

Each Pawnee presented them with a horse, gave a pipe to smoke to the Osage to whom he had made the present. In this manner were eight horses given.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Janis Karpinski

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

James Stockdale

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

Robert Patterson

Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

James Stockdale

It just - the whole thing reminded me of a May pole dance. I was standing there trying to figure out how I could get my oar in and never really did.

Janis Karpinski

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

Kenneth H. Cooper

I've got many examples of people who have been exercising for 15 years and who are now 70, and their heart rate is the same as when they were 50.

John Abizaid

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.