Civil War Quotes

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

All this has been my fault.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Do you see those colors? Take them!

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

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.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

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

Press on, press on, men.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

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.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.