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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... "
Chancellorsville: Lee's Greatest Battle - Page 7
by Edward James Stackpole - 1988 - 398 pages
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Macaulay's Speeches on Copyright and Lincoln's Address at Cooper Institute ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 218 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military...government will support you to the utmost of its ability, 25 which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that...
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Abraham Lincoln: An Address

Clark Prescott Bissett - 1916 - 74 pages
...but in spite of it, that I have [40] given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military...to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more or less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit that you have...
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Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States ..., Volume 8

Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 590 pages
...that botli the army and the Government needed a dictator. * * * 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. * * * I much fear that the spirit, which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their...
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The Unpopular History of the United States by Uncle Sam Himself as Recorded ...

Harris Dickson - 1917 - 186 pages
...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 success can...to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more or less than it will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit which you have aided to infuse into...
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Loyalty in Business: And One and Twenty Other Good Things

Elbert Hubbard - 1921 - 136 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have 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 dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability , which is neither more...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ...

Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have 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 «» C. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ...

Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have 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 «» C. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less...
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Lincoln and His Generals

Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - 1925 - 256 pages
...spite of this, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success,...The government will support you to the utmost of its [141] ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all its commanders....
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Addresses Delivered at the Lincoln Dinners of the National Republican Club ...

National Republican club inc - 1927 - 408 pages
...those generals who gain successes can set up dictators," and added, with a humor as grim as death, "what I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." If the General did not tear up his commission when he read that letter it was because he was brave...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Hooker Letter: An Address

William Eleazar Barton - 1928 - 48 pages
...to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. . . What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship" — is it wise to say that? "The spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army will now turn...
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