Civil War Quotes - Page 14

• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confused, War, Ducks

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Freedom, Father, War

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• Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Home, Men

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• It's bad. It's damned bad.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War

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• I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Said

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• I can make men follow me to hell.

  Philip Kearny

  War, Men, Hell

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• There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, Sides

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• With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, War, Responsibility

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.234, Wildside Press LLC

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• Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Had Enough, Shows

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• Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Praying, Excuse

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• Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

  William Nelson

  War, Wish, Clergymen

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• General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

  John S. Mosby

  War, Dresses, Get Up

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• The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Father, War, Sea

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.291, Fordham Univ Press

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• General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

  James Longstreet

  War, Soldier, Unions

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• I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

  James Longstreet

  War, Want, Succeed

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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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• I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Brave, Soldier

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.476, Library of America

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