The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

In great deeds something abides.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.