John Brown Gordon quotes

John Brown Gordon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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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

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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