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List of James Longstreet Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 16 inspiring quotes by James Longstreet.

About James Longstreet

  • Born: January 8, 1821
  • Died: January 2, 1904
  • Occupation: Military Commander
    • There was no indication of panic. the broken files marched back in steady step. the effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.
    Blow Broken Effort
    If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.
    War Men Enough
    I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by general lee.
    Ideas Campaigns Fancy
    I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet i am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
    Thinking Views Helping
    If the entire union army comes across here, i will kill them all!
    Military Army Unions
    General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
    War Fighting Honorable
    I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the union veterans along pennsylvania avenue, and then i will die happy.
    Veterans Day Our Veterans Long
    This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
    War Fighting Dies
    General, if you put every union soldier now on the other side of the potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, i will kill them all before they reach my line.
    War Soldier Unions
    My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; i can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes i feel as if i wished the end would come; but i have some misrepresentations of my battles that i wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before i die.
    Voice Wish Battle
    I do not want to make this charge. i do not see how it can succeed. i would not make it now but that general lee has ordered it and expects it.
    War Want Succeed
    Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
    Brother War Fighting
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