General Longstreet Quotes & Sayings

Anyone that wants to live a successful life and a prosperous life has to know that life is wired in such a way that for you to survive and make it in life, CHANGE must be your constant companion. — Sunday Adelaja

Three hundred years from now children will be learning about a lost art that has the ability to:

Enrich minds,
Increase intelligence,
Reduce stress
Increase knowledge
Increase concentration

IT'S CALLED READING — Steven Aitchison

Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to apologize in general from time to time and let people know he meant well and then to shove off and hope for the best. He apologized and departed, curls ajiggle. — Michael Shaara

he found the general seated on a log, quite motionless, with his eyes closed. His cap, as usual, was pulled down to his nose. Hampton gave Jackson his report and volunteered to lead an advance over his new bridge. To Hampton's complete amazement, the general did not speak, nor did he even move. He "sat in silence for some time, then rose and walked off in silence." Jackson later was found prostrate and asleep underneath a tree, in spite of the daylong artillery battle that was screaming overhead. He seemed almost perfectly passive. When Longstreet sent an aide to him asking for his help, Jackson replied that he could do nothing. He later fell into such a deep sleep that his aides had trouble waking him. He fell asleep at dinner with a biscuit between his teeth. When he was awakened, he suddenly seemed to come to his senses, saying, "Now, gentlemen, let us at once to bed, and rise with the dawn, and see if tomorrow we cannot do something. — S.C. Gwynne

The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love. — Beau Brummell

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. — James Longstreet

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet

We all have choices, we don't have won't be in a wrong situation if we wouldn't want to. — Jbb

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it. — James Longstreet

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became. — Buzz Aldrin

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line. — James Longstreet

Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it. — Isabel Allende

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army. — Robert E.Lee

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off. — James Longstreet

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now. — George H. W. Bush

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. — James Longstreet

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home. — Christopher Isherwood

I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.
- Lieutenant General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee after the initial Confederate victories on day one of the Battle of Gettysburg. — Michael Shaara

Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain. — Dave Barry

For it is a truth, that fortune is inconstant, fickle and mutable. — Hilary Mantel