Civil War Quotes

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

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

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

Teach him to deny himself.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.