I don't know so much, very little is unprintable thesedays. Gratuitous swearing is one thing, but historical quotes should be ok to faithfully post imo. Sweary or not.Not exactly a quote but Hancock was referred to as "the profanest man in an army of profane men". I would very much like to read some of his quotes. I assume they would be unprintable here.
John
This totally avoidable cock-up is certainly one that sticks in my mind."Why in the nation, General Marcy, couldn't the general have known whether a boat would go through the lock before spending a million dollars getting them there? I am no engineer, but it seems to me that if I wished to know whether a boat would go through a hole, or a lock, common sense would teach me to go and measure it."
President Lincoln's exasperation at learning the General McClellan's plan to construct a temporary bridge in February 1862 near Harpers Ferry had been stymied when the bridge sections (floated on barges up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal), were too wide to fit through the canal locks. (Marcy was McClellan's Chief of Staff and McClellan's father in law).
"Don't worry, men, they'll all be firing at me!"- last words of Philip Kearny (1815-1862).
also
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." - last words of John Sedgewick (1813-1864).
“We can’t undertake to run state governments in all these Southern States. Their people must do that — though I reckon at first some of them may do it badly.”"Bad promises are better broken than kept."
--A. Lincoln, April 11, 1865.
"There is Jackson, standing like a stonewall...." Barnard E. Bee
“We can’t undertake to run state governments in all these Southern States. Their people must do that — though I reckon at first some of them may do it badly.”
—A. Lincoln, April 14, 1865