 | Dale Carnegie - 2010 - 293 Seiten
...honorable brother officer. 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...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
 | Edwin C. Fishel - 1996 - 764 Seiten
...to believe it, of your recendy saying that both the Army and the Government needed a dictator. . . . Only those generals who gain successes can set up...ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."0 Hooker's estimation of his own abilities was not without foundation. He had made a... | |
 | Walter H. Hebert - 1999 - 396 Seiten
...honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of...of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 Seiten
...recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator," he wrote Hooker on January 26. "Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it,...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. . . . And now, beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward... | |
 | Eliot A. Cohen - 2002 - 312 Seiten
...honorable brother officer. 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...of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse... | |
 | George Walsh - 2003 - 502 Seiten
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a meritorious and honorable brother officer. ... Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command."" Hooker would be Lee's fifth foe since taking command — McClellan, Pope, McClellan again, and now... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 Seiten
...because of these and other political utterances but was going to entrust him with the command anyway. "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship," he said, and he went on to urge: "Beware of rashness, but with energy, sleepless vigilance, go forward,... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - 2002 - 594 Seiten
...have heard, in such a way as to believe it," the president went on, "of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not^or this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes,... | |
 | Herman Hattaway - 2004 - 272 Seiten
...meritorious brother officer. I hear, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. As commander in chief Lincoln was far from perfect. At times he allowed his generals too much discretion... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 Seiten
...man, and I am his the rest of the war.' fifi I have heard of your recently saying that both Army and Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not...in spite of it, that I have given you the command . . . What I ask of you now is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. Abraham Lincoln,... | |
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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... 
