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Civil War Quotes - Page 4

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Joshua Chamberlain
College, Civil War, Wish
Mark Nesbit, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1996). “Through Blood & Fire”, p.24, Stackpole Books

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Differences, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

My God! My God! What will the country say?

Abraham Lincoln
Country, War, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.262, Transaction Publishers

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Green
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.185, Courier Corporation

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Civil War, Liberty
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, War, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.310, Рипол Классик

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Abraham Lincoln
Organization, Civil War, Events
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Eye, Civil War
Attributed reply to the South Carolina Commissioners.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

John Pope
War, Civil War, Saddles
John Pope (1998). “The Military Memoirs of General John Pope”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Bobby Riggs
War, Civil War, Alive

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Believe, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln
Civil War, Slavery, Rebellion
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.12, Penguin

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, People, Civil War
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Divine Will
"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

Robert E. Lee
War, Civil War, Young
Jefferson Davis, Heros von Borcke, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke (2017). “REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More”, p.2723, Madison & Adams

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

George Friedman
War, Civil War, Horrible
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

Branch Rickey
War, Civil War

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Alphonse de Lamartine
War, Civil War, Tombs

You want one civil war, brah?

Tom Brower
War, Civil War, Marriage Equality
"Hawaii House Advances Same-Sex Marriage Bill, Sets Final Vote For Friday" by Chad Blair and Nathan Eagle, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2013.

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

Ron Paul
Country, War, Civil War

Teach him to deny himself.

Robert E. Lee
War, Civil War, Deny

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

Nicholas Sparks
War, People, Civil War
Source: collider.com

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Civil War

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

Max Frisch
Military, Civil War, Gestures

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

Marie Phillips
War, Civil War

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