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"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."
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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."
"If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?"
"If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!"
"I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure."
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"My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear."
"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back."
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
"I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee."
"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy."
"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
"I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best."
"There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended."
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