WAR OF 1812 QUOTES

“I have no doubt but we shall succeed in this great struggle for national rights and independence.” – General Andrew Jackson

“It’s a mere matter of marching.” – General Isaac Brock

“We have met the enemy and they are ours.” – Captain Oliver Hazard Perry

“Don’t give up the ship!” – Captain James Lawrence

“War is the trade of kings.” – John Adams

“Today begins a new era in my life.” – Tecumseh

“I will lay my bones by the side of my father’s, and I will rise at the burning of my house.” – Chief Tecumseh

“Great Britain has at length suspended the New Orders in Council, but, though declaring an unaltered determination to insist on the maritime rights, for which she contends, does not evince a willingness to repeal the decrees of France, as they relate to the powers with whom she has commercial intercourse.” – President James Madison

“The war has not been a success, and has certainly been a failure for me.” – President James Madison

“We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.” – President James Monroe

“You shall hear of the destruction of Stonington, but Burnside shall never whip me out.” – Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard

“The attack against the city I create, as a diversion, and nothing more.” – General Henry Dearborn

“We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.” – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry BTS SPRING DAY QUOTES

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” – Colonel William Prescott

“Our toils are not yet over.” – General Alexander Macomb

“We have met the enemy and they are ours, but we have lost one of the finest officers of the service.” – Commodore Thomas Macdonough

“Don’t wound, kill.” – General Winfield Scott

“The contest is not for glory or for territory, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life.” – Chief Tecumseh

“War is a game that is played with the nations as mere counters.” – President James Madison

“I cannot, without admitting the principle that there must be a strong navy or a mild navy, have a negative vote on this Bill.” – President James Madison

“I like a little danger; a little wilderness.” – General Winfield Scott

“We are only over-shooting our goal.” – Captain John Doria

“It is my aim to see the promised land of peace before I die.” – Chief Tecumseh

“We are fighting for our lives and liberty here.” – General Isaac Brock