"Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
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“One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.”
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
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“And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice.”
“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
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“In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.”
“Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.”
“And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.”