James Wolfe quotes
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“What, do they run already? Then I die happy.”
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“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”
-- James WolfeSource : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
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“I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.”
-- James Wolfe -
“There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.”
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“Now God be praised, I will die in peace.”
-- James WolfeSource : Dying words, in J. Knox 'Historical Journal of Campaigns, 1757-60' (1769) (vol. 2, p. 114 1914 ed.)
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“The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.”
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“Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.”
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“You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.”
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“A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.”
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“I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.”
-- James Wolfe
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