Quotes and Sayings About Civil War
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My God! My God! What will the country say?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.
-- Albert Sidney Johnston -
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I would fight them if they were a million!
-- Albert Sidney Johnston -
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
-- Alexander H. StephensSource : Alexander H. Stephens “A”
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
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We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
-- Bobby Riggs -
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
-- Bum Phillips -
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
-- Charles Duhigg -
It was not war, it was murder.
-- Daniel Harvey HillSource : Daniel Harvey Hill (1899). “North Carolina”
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**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
-- David FarragutSource : At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10
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The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war
-- Dennis Prager -
Civil War was recorded by the original line-up
-- Dizzy Reed -
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Now he belongs to the ages.
-- Edwin M. StantonSource : Quoted in Century Illustrated Magazine, Jan. 1890
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To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy -
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
-- George AyitteySource : "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.
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Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.
-- George B. McClellan -
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I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
-- George Pickett -
There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.
-- Henry M. CistSource : Henry M. Cist (2004). “The Army of the Cumberland: The Army and Navy in The Civil War”, p.227, Digital Scanning Inc
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We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
-- Horace Greeley -
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.
-- Isaac R. Trimble -
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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
-- Jack Scalia -
Slavery can never be abolished.
-- James Henry HammondSource : James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.13