Top 18 Quotes by Joshua Chamberlain

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.