Civil War Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

  Peter DeFazio

  Military, War, Hippie

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• The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

  Anthony Minghella

  War, Hero, Ugly

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

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• I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

  Steve Zahn

  War, Military, Kentucky

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

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• Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  War, Mean, Politics

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.294, A&C Black

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• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  Nadine Labaki

  War, People, Watching Tv

  "'Where Do We Go Now?' Asks Nadine Labaki" by Nana Asfour, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2012.

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• Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Offering, Civilization

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• For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Citizens

  "Philippics". 2. 15. 37,

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• Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

  Abraham Cowley

  Hate, War, Gold

  Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

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• We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Mean, Civilization

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  Depression, War, Struggle

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, War, Civilization

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.2

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