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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... "
Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... - Page 165
by Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 228 pages
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1861-1865. The civil war

James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...that both the army and the government needed a dictator. He warned Hooker to beware of rashness. " 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, which is neither more nor less than it...
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History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Volume 6

James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...that both the army and the government needed a dictator. He warned Hooker to beware of rashness. " 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, which is neither more nor less than it...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People

Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your saying that both the country and the army needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People

Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your saying that both the country and the army needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and ..., Volume 3

Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3

Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it...
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Anecdotal Lincoln

Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...which you did a great wrong, both to the country, and a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you a command. Only those generals who gain success can set up as dictators. What I ask of you is military...
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Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and Letters

Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the 173 utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln

Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can be dictators! What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship....
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"Abe" Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and ...

Alexander Kelly McClure - 1901 - 476 pages
...as he did not think enough of it to relieve McClellan of his command. The President said to Hooker: "I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of...given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can be dictators. "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."...
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