Civil War Quotes
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Civil War Quotes & Sayings
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I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
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.
— Andrew Taylor Still
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
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.
— Smedley Butler
My God! My God! What will the country say?
— Abraham Lincoln
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
— Abraham Lincoln
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
— Abraham Lincoln
While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.
— Douglas Brinkley
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
— William Lyon Phelps
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
— Widad Akreyi
I done told you twice already goddammit no!
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
— Cory Doctorow
He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
— Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
— Douglas Brinkley
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
— Victor Hugo
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.
— Daniel Woodrell
Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.
— Robin Williams
Grant stood by me when I was crazy ...
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
— Henry V. O'Neil
Hello fake Everett children.
— Monet Polny
Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
— Harold Holzer
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
— Abraham Lincoln
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi
The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.
— Abraham Lincoln
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
— Abraham Lincoln
They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.
— Mike Millar
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
— Cary Fukunaga
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
— Herodotus
That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.
— P. G. T. Beauregard
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.
— Stephen Ambrose
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
— Victor Hugo
Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars.
— Various
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
— James Buchanan
The better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
— Will Ferrell
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
— Jim Leach
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
— Abraham Lincoln
I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
— George Pickett
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.
— Isaac R. Trimble
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
— Peter DeFazio
Headquarters in the Saddle.
— John Pope
When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.
— Trent Lott
Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.
— George B. McClellan
Their object is disunion.
— Andrew Jackson
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
— Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War always moves me.
— Suzanne Weyn
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
— Elbridge Gerry
The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.
— Abraham Lincoln
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If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
— Ralph Nader
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
— Paulette Jiles
In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.
— Theodore Dalrymple
All this has been my fault.
— Robert E.Lee
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.
— John Kasich
Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.
— Robert Ferrigno
Well, it made you famous.
— John S. Mosby
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
— Abraham Lincoln
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.
— Sergei Lavrov
Any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
— Anonymous
There's the devil to pay.
— John F. Reynolds
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
— Michael Shaara
I sure am sick of the Civil War.
— Flannery O'Connor
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war.
— Charles Duhigg
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
— Barack Obama
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
— William Shakespeare
Teach him to deny himself.
— Robert E.Lee
Mars is not an aesthetic God.
— John Brown Gordon
Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
— Clint Johnson
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
— Widad Akreyi
Civil War was recorded by the original line-up
— Dizzy Reed
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