Civil War Quotes

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

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

Headquarters in the Saddle.

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

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

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

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

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

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

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

It's bad. It's damned bad.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

Their object is disunion.

Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority of whites didn't have any.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up