Civil War Quotes - Page 3

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Conquer or be conquered.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Do you see those colors? Take them!

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

All this has been my fault.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

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

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Press on, press on, men.

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