John S. Mosby quotes
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“The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].”
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“War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.”
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“General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!”
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“Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.”
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“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”
-- John S. Mosby
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.”
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“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”
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“You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.”
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