In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground…

- Joshua Chamberlain

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and…

- Joshua Chamberlain

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor a…

- Joshua Chamberlain

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantag…

- Joshua Chamberlain

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

- Joshua Chamberlain

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gath…

- Joshua Chamberlain

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

- Joshua Chamberlain

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

- Joshua Chamberlain

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

- Joshua Chamberlain