 | 1917 - 996 pages
...reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during your predecessor's command, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted...it, that I have given you the command. Only those who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I gave you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1888 - 970 pages
...to believe it, of your recently saying that b and the Government needed a dictator. Of course it wa but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. generals who gain successes can set up dictators. Wl of you is military success, and I will risk the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...soldier — which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession — ia which you are right. You have confidence in yourself...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now iisk of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession — in. which you arc right. You have confidence in yourself — which is...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...yourself — which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious — which, wTithin reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritoriousand honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship.... | |
 | John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...wrong both to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such way as to believe it of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
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I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes... 
