"I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause."

Men, Cause, Fighting, Soldiers

7

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause."

Exlpore more Men quotes

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Men, Mind, Stress

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Men, Difficulties

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Men, People, Courage, Misery

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Men, Bachelors

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Men, Right, World

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Men, Evil, Old, Temper

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Men, Time, Doctrine, Fiction

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Men, People

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Men, Poor

"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Men, Action, Mercy

Explore more quotes by Cole Younger

"I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful."

Kindness

"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."

Independence

"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

Attention

"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."

People

"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."

Wounds

"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."

Company

"The world may believe as it pleases."

May

"I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination."

Time

"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise."

Life

"I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause."

Men