Civil War Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  Jay Rockefeller

  War, Tyrants, Iraq

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• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Jon Voight

  Country, Real, War

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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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• There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's soul. You look at them and go, "Oh my gosh." And that doesn't happen with television. It's unique to photography. Photographs are unique in that they are a frame abstracted out of reality, out of, in this case, a civil war. A single event can carry so much weight. And that is extraordinary.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, War, Unique

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means - and the numbers of failing states are increasing. This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man's land. After 9/11, George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Mean, Promise

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, People, Missing

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Canada

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Tunes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Gratitude, War

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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• I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

  Philip Sheridan

  War, Gun, Railroads

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• Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Connections, Speak

  "Lee the American". Book by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 226, 1912.

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• We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Mistake, Struggle

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• There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Men, Faces

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• Teach him to deny himself.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Deny, Teach

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• If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Abolition Of Slavery, Goal

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• I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  War, Government, People

  Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Agitation, Alive

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• There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

  George William Curtis

  Country, War, White

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• We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

  Horace Greeley

  War, Two, People

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• I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Views, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.40, Penguin

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• The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Independence, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.40, Penguin

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Light, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, War, Government

  Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx (2011). “An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln”, p.116, Verso Books

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• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Ambitious, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

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