During The Civil War Quotes

• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Children, War, Doctors

  Andrew Taylor Still (1897). “Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy”

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• I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, War, America

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books

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• Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

  Will Ferrell

  Anchorman, War, Believe

  "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Alcohol, Ulysses's Grant

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• There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.

  Dick Durbin

  War, Issues, President

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people in the North who actually felt we should just let the South be the South. Because the way it is now, it seems like we have this portrait where everybody in Georgia hated Yankees and everybody in the North was enlightened. That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Cutting, Yankees

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not. The Spanish anarchists opposed conscription during the civil war in Spain as a gross expropriation of property, the most precious property that we have, our own physical beings themselves.

  Murray Bookchin

  War, People, Spain

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  War, Government, Groups

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science.

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, War, Space

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• I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!

  Sean Hannity

  War, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Powerful, War

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• I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Uncles, Stupid

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• In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Gun, Cases

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• Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, War, Loss

  "Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2009.

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