Top 25 Civil War Quotes of 117 - Page 2

James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.13

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Robert E. Lee

Wedding, Character, Civil War

"General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Abraham Lincoln

Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

Ulysses S. Grant

War, Army, Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50”, p.482, Library of America

Well, it made you famous.

John S. Mosby

War, Civil War, Made

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

the better angels of our nature

Abraham Lincoln

Angel, Civil War, Apocalypse

First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Victor Hugo

War, Historical, Civil War

There's the devil to pay.

John F. Reynolds

War, Civil War, Devil

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Civil War, Charity

Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Army, Civil War, Mules

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Civil War, Fields

William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press