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

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

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

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

- Joshua Chamberlain

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

- 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