Civil War Quotes - Page 25

• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God's decree, work out her own independence.

  Belle Boyd

  War, Believe, Fire

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• Their object is disunion.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Objects

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.119

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• Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.

  George Mason

  New York, War, Boston

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• We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, War, Generations

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.432, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Heart

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• Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

  George B. McClellan

  War, Home, Paper

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• I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

  Bum Phillips

  War, Southern, Lost

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• The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Southern, Victory

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant

  Ronald Hutton

  War, Fighting, Unique

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• The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal. It's not a democracy, but it's not a tyranny. It's not like the rest of the world, the rest of Europe. There is a parliament, laws have to be made, elections are made.

  Simon Schama

  War, Fate, Animal

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• Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.

  Simon Schama

  War, Two, America

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• The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Pride, Sacrifice, Saving Private Ryan

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

  Ishmael Beah

  War, Trusting Each Other, People

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Men, Cycling

  "Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 16, 2012.

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• That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

  Nuruddin Farah

  War, Fighting, Forever

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• Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated. Joy and a hunger for life infuse this book -- whether St John is writing about the harrowing years of Rhodesia's civil war, her childhood adventures in the bush, or the breaking apart of her family. Rainbow's End is a most generous and wise book.

  Lisa Fugard

  Wise, Father, War

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• The Almighty has His own purposes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Purpose, Almighty

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• Care for him who shall have borne the battle

  Abraham Lincoln

  Widows And Orphans, Battle, Care

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

  Warren Adler

  War, Loss, Impact

  FaceBook post by Warren Adler from Jun 25, 2013

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• The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, War, Political

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

  Elbridge Gerry

  War, Foundation, Constitution

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• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  John Kasich

  Religious, War, Hippie

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• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  T Bone Burnett

  War, Hippie, Hatred

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• Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Hippie, Regimes

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