Quotes by John Brown Gordon
“The first thing that I have to say to you, my countrymen, is that the grand old commonwealth of Georgia is not for sale.”— John Brown Gordon
“I call from the shadows of the past the forms of those who were the bravest of the brave.”— John Brown Gordon
“A more gallant, chivalrous body of men than the private soldiers and subordinate officers of the Confederate army was never marshaled.”— John Brown Gordon
“The causes of the war... were, in my opinion, the questions of the supremacy of the Nation on the one hand, and of the sovereignty of the States on the other.”— John Brown Gordon
“No people in the history of the world have been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned as the people of the South.”— John Brown Gordon
“There was no alternative for Lee, and the great soldier accepted the crushing fate to which his army was doomed.”— John Brown Gordon
“Great as was the disparity of numbers, the greater disparity was in the matériel of war.”— John Brown Gordon
“It was a trying moment to us, who had followed him so long, and who loved him so well.”— John Brown Gordon
“The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.”— John Brown Gordon