Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Quotes

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

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

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, – to give life’s best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

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.

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