Quotes about Civil War

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil. Votes: 5

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. Votes: 5

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. Votes: 4

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. Votes: 4

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up Votes: 3

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive. Votes: 3

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel. Votes: 3

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War. Votes: 3

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. Votes: 3

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched. Votes: 3

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating. Votes: 3

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. Votes: 3

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. Votes: 3

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. Votes: 3

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. Votes: 3

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. Votes: 3

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. Votes: 3

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. Votes: 3

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Votes: 3

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. Votes: 3

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. Votes: 3

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. Votes: 3

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War. Votes: 3

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. Votes: 3

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Votes: 3

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War. Votes: 3

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War. Votes: 3

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. Votes: 3

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. Votes: 3

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. Votes: 3

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. Votes: 3

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. Votes: 3

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. Votes: 3

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general. Votes: 3

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War. Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. Votes: 3

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. Votes: 3

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Votes: 3

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. Votes: 3

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. Votes: 3

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. Votes: 3

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Votes: 3

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. Votes: 3

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. Votes: 3

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. Votes: 3

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. Votes: 3

I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. Votes: 3

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control. Votes: 3

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA. Votes: 3

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read. Votes: 3

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era. Votes: 3

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict Votes: 3

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. Votes: 3

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. Votes: 3

The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War. Votes: 3

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag. Votes: 3

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. Votes: 3

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion. Votes: 3

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. Votes: 3

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital. Votes: 3

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition. Votes: 3

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. Votes: 3

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Votes: 3

Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. Votes: 3

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record. Votes: 3

When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front. Votes: 3

The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte. Votes: 3

Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite conspirators working together in the Northern and the Southern states. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America. Votes: 3

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could have been avoided if only Lincoln had known that little trick. Votes: 3

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. Votes: 3

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War. Votes: 3

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights. Votes: 3

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, Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets. Votes: 3

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution. Votes: 3

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically. Votes: 3

I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both said that's our favorite country song of the year. That knocks me out. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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). Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion. Votes: 3

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency. Votes: 3

The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born. Votes: 3

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads. Votes: 3

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. Votes: 3

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. Votes: 3

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my all-time favorite book about the war is the novel, "The Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara. Votes: 3

The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire. Votes: 3

The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West. Votes: 3

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. Votes: 3

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Votes: 3

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.) Votes: 3

The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860 Votes: 3

My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin. Votes: 3

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. Votes: 3

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. Votes: 3

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. Votes: 3

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it. Votes: 3

That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West. Votes: 3

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath. Votes: 3

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have. Votes: 3

When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War, Votes: 3

On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.' Votes: 3

Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them. Votes: 3

Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War. Votes: 3

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low. Votes: 3

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic. Votes: 3

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had. Votes: 3

Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived. Votes: 3

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king. Votes: 3

Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes. Votes: 3

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. Votes: 3

The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. Votes: 3

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation. Votes: 3

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket. Votes: 3

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. Votes: 3

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable. Votes: 3

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind. Votes: 3

I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it. Votes: 3

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House. Votes: 3

The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship. Votes: 3

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood. Votes: 3

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95% of Americans are "scientifically illiterate." That's...the same fraction...of slaves who were illiterate before the Civil War... Votes: 3

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most. Votes: 3

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession. Votes: 3

The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s. Votes: 3

While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam. Votes: 3

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay. Votes: 3

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven. Votes: 3

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. Votes: 3

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688. Votes: 3

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War. Votes: 3

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far. Votes: 3

Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges. Votes: 3

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms. Votes: 3

Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on. Votes: 3

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. Votes: 3

I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was fought, and it's just more present in the sort of psyche of the South. So I've always just been interested and sort of fascinated by [Civil War]. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War. Votes: 3

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. Votes: 3

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS Votes: 3

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia. Votes: 3

Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. Votes: 1

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources. Votes: 1

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. Votes: 1

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent. Votes: 1

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels. Votes: 1

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you. Votes: 1

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause. Votes: 1

The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves. Votes: 1

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Votes: 1

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed. Votes: 1

You want one civil war, brah? Votes: 0

What’s so civil about war anyway? Votes: 0

Anarchy is order, government is civil war. Votes: 0

War diminishes both civil and economic rights. Votes: 0

A war between Europeans is a civil war. Votes: 0

How is it possible to have a civil war? Votes: 0

We're not going to baby sit a civil war. Votes: 0

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. Votes: 0

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means. Votes: 0

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly. Votes: 0

Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days. Votes: 0

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war. Votes: 0

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have. Votes: 0

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? Votes: 0

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Votes: 0

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war. Votes: 0

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war. Votes: 0

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. Votes: 0

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war. Votes: 0

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country. Votes: 0

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars. Votes: 0

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized. Votes: 0

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war. Votes: 0

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. Votes: 0

Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil. Votes: 0

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world. Votes: 0

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. Votes: 0

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe. Votes: 0

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. Votes: 0

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion. Votes: 0

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. Votes: 0

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently. Votes: 0

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. Votes: 0

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing. Votes: 0

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. Votes: 0

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel." Votes: 0

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. Votes: 0

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? Votes: 0

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. Votes: 0

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Votes: 0

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. Votes: 0

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. Votes: 0

Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum]. Votes: 0

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. Votes: 0

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. Votes: 0

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. Votes: 0

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. Votes: 0

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. Votes: 0

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. Votes: 0

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. Votes: 0

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy. Votes: 0

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war. Votes: 0

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. Votes: 0

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. Votes: 0

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. Votes: 0

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. Votes: 0

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein. Votes: 0

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world. Votes: 0

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. Votes: 0

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. Votes: 0

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war. Votes: 0

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. Votes: 0

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself. Votes: 0

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war Votes: 0

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war. Votes: 0

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue. Votes: 0

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. Votes: 0

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. Votes: 0

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?. Votes: 0

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war. Votes: 0

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Votes: 0

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances. Votes: 0

Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war. Votes: 0

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period. Votes: 0

Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It will create a civil war-like situation. Votes: 0

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s. Votes: 0

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Votes: 0

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution. Votes: 0

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, Votes: 0

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will. Votes: 0

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides. Votes: 0

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back. Votes: 0

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. Votes: 0

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law. Votes: 0

During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence. Votes: 0

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them. Votes: 0

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. Votes: 0

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. Votes: 0

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. Votes: 0