Quotes About The Union Army

#1. On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.

Ulysses S. Grant

#2. Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.

Charles Duhigg

#3. By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.

Eric Foner

#4. Harriet Tubman was a spy for the United States of America Union Army during the Civil War. 9.

Stephen R. Daily

#5. Perfecting is a journey ... There is no destination called perfection.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#6. If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!

James Longstreet

#7. The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.

Angela Merkel

#8. People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel ... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

Eudora Welty

#9. We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Frank Knox

#10. The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

Edward Gibbon

#11. Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Joschka Fischer

#12. I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest. Up to that time it had been the policy of our army, certainly of that portion commanded by me, to protect the property of the citizens whose territory was invaded, without regard to their sentiments, whether Union or Secession.

Ulysses S. Grant

#13. Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

Daniel Ortega

#14. Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

Ben Bradlee

#15. I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God's will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.

Julia Cameron

#16. It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Red Smith

#17. Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. The value of a good education has never left me.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#19. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army ...

Robert E.Lee