Civil War Quotes

[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

You want one civil war, brah?

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.

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.

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

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.

Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURGPROLOGUE"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people.

He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.