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Top 15 James Longstreet Quotes (2025 Update)

James Longstreet Quote: “Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.”

1. “Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “You can’t lead from behind.”

3. “You can’t lead from behind.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.”

4. “General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.”

5. “The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.”

6. “This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!”

7. “If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”

8. “Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.”

9. “I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.”

10. “I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!”

12. “General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “If we only save the finger of one man, that’s enough.”

14. “If we only save the finger of one man, that’s enough.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— James Longstreet

James Longstreet Quote: “The heavy fumes of gunpowder hanging about our ranks, as stimulating as sparkling wine, charged the atmosphere with the light and splendor of battle. Time was culminating under a flowing tide.”

16. “The heavy fumes of gunpowder hanging about our ranks, as stimulating as sparkling wine, charged the atmosphere with the light and splendor of battle. Time was culminating under a flowing tide.”

— James Longstreet

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