quotes 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
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Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
-- James Longstreet -
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
-- James Longstreet -
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I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
-- James Longstreet -
Mars is not an aesthetic God.
-- John Brown GordonSource : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
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Headquarters in the Saddle.
-- John PopeSource : John Pope (1998). “The Military Memoirs of General John Pope”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press
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General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!
-- John S. Mosby -
To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.
-- Joseph Hooker -
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Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?
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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?
-- Marie Phillips -
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.
-- Max Frisch -
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I done told you twice already goddammit no!
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest -
I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest -
Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.
-- P. G. T. Beauregard -
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Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!
-- P. G. T. Beauregard -
If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.
-- Philip Sheridan -
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
-- Ralph Nader -
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
-- Robert E. Lee -
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
-- Robert E. Lee -
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
-- Robert E. Lee -
It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
-- Robert E. Lee -
What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?
-- Robert M. T. Hunter -
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
-- Sam HoustonSource : Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
-- Simon Schama -
I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.
-- Ted NugentSource : "Ted Nugent Wonders If It Would Have Been Better If ‘The South Won The Civil War’" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.
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You want one civil war, brah?
-- Tom BrowerSource : "Hawaii House Advances Same-Sex Marriage Bill, Sets Final Vote For Friday" by Chad Blair and Nathan Eagle, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2013.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle,' and the other isn't.
-- Ulysses S. Grant -
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
-- Ulysses S. Grant -
It will be all right if it turns out all right.
-- Ulysses S. Grant -
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
-- Victor Hugo -
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Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
-- William Eldridge Odom -
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
-- William Nelson -
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
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The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city in 2012.
-- Margaret Warner -
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
-- Rose O'Neal Greenhow -
Do you see those colors? Take them!
-- Winfield Scott Hancock