James Wolfe Quotes

• The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

  James Wolfe

  Friends, Country, Believe

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• Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

  James Wolfe

  Peace, Dies

  Dying words, in J. Knox 'Historical Journal of Campaigns, 1757-60' (1769) (vol. 2, p. 114 1914 ed.)

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• I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

  James Wolfe

  Success, Bravery, Soldier

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• What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

  James Wolfe

  Running, War, Total War

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• War is an option of difficulties.

  James Wolfe

  War, History, Difficulty

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• Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

  James Wolfe

  Gentleman, Lines, Tomorrow

  1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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• A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

  James Wolfe

  Air, British Soldiers, Troops

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• You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

  James Wolfe

  Fear, Army, Numbers

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• There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

  James Wolfe

  Loss, Choices, Difficulty

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• Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

  James Wolfe

  Confidence, Rocks, Enemy

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• I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

  James Wolfe

  Cancer, Mean, One Day

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