John Brown Gordon quotes
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“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?”
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“No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.”
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“Mars is not an aesthetic God.”
-- John Brown GordonSource : 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.”
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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 GordonSource : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
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Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.”
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“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”
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