Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

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

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

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

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

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This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mys...

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...

Joshua Chamberlain

Former Governor of Maine

Born: 1828-09-08

Died: 1914-02-24

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (8 September 1828 – 24 February 1914) was an American college professor from the State of Maine, who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. Although having no earlier education in military strategies, he became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general). For his gallantry at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After the war, he entered politics as a Republican and served four one-year terms of office as Governor of Maine. He served on the faculty of, and as president of, his alma mater, Bowdoin College.More