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" I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes... "
Complete Works - Page xxxvii
by Abraham Lincoln - 1894
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...Government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I gave you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can...set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 119

American essays - 1917 - 996 pages
...dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is success, and I will risk the dictatorship. I much fear that the spirit, which you have aided to infuse...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...Government needed a Dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can...set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...Government needed a Dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can...set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability...
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Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume

John William Jones - United States - 1879 - 402 pages
...those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, %vhich is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...Government needed a Dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now iisk of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship. The Government will support you...
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In Memoriam, Major-General Joseph Hooker

Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can...set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability,...
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Obituary Notice of Maj.-Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman, First Commander of the ...

Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can...set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability,...
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The Campaign of Chancellorsville

Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History - 1881 - 294 pages
...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generaIs who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability,...
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The Battle of Chancellorsville

Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can...set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability,...
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