Civil War Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Sadness, Defense

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• We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

  J. E. B. Stuart

  War, Fighting, Army

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?

  Richard S. Ewell

  Crazy, War, Walkers

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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

  War, Bayonets, Republic

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• It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

  William H. Seward

  War, Government, Would Be

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• For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South.

  Arthur Fremantle

  Determination, War, Hopeful

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• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Shame, Glory

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• I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Virginia, Blood

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

  Clinton Rossiter

  War, Successful, Men

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• Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Government, Long

  Notes for Speech, ca. Sept. 1859

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• I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Feelings, Capacity

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• That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Country, War, Lying

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, War, Half

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

  Jonah Goldberg

  New York, War, America

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• We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

  Bobby Riggs

  War, Alive, Want

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• The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.

  Dumas Malone

  War, Government, Church

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• My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, War, Mind

  William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Perspective, Humanity

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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Doe

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, People, Liberty

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, War, Fighting

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