Civil War famous quotes

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Sheep #Civil War #Liberty

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.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Work #Independent #Civil War

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Giving #Free Spirit #Civil War

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#War #Civil War #May

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

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

#War #Eye #Civil War

My God! My God! What will the country say?
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Country #War #Civil War

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.
-- Albert Sidney Johnston

#War #Civil War #May

I would fight them if they were a million!
-- Albert Sidney Johnston

#War #Fighting #Civil War

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
-- Alexander H. Stephens

#War #People #Civil War

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#War #Civil War

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#War #Civil War #Kingdoms

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
-- Bobby Riggs

#War #Civil War #Alive

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
-- Bum Phillips

#War #Southern #Civil War

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

#War #Civil War #Company

It was not war, it was murder.
-- Daniel Harvey Hill

#War #Civil War #Murder

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
-- David Farragut

#War #Civil War #Speed

Conquer or be conquered.
-- David Farragut

#War #Civil War #Conquer

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war
-- Dennis Prager

#War #Europe #Civil War

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up
-- Dizzy Reed

#War #Civil War #Lines

Now he belongs to the ages.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#War #Civil War #Age

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#War #Men #Civil War

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
-- George Ayittey

#War #Civil War #Groups

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.
-- George B. McClellan

#War #Civil War #Wells

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
-- George Pickett

#War #Yankees #Civil War

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.
-- Henry M. Cist

#War #Civil War

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
-- Horace Greeley

#War #Civil War #Bayonets

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

#War #Civil War

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
-- Jack Scalia

#Country #War #Civil War

Slavery can never be abolished.
-- James Henry Hammond

#War #Civil War #Slavery

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Errors #Civil War

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Fighting #Civil War

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
-- James Longstreet

#Veterans Day #Long #Civil War

Mars is not an aesthetic God.
-- John Brown Gordon

#War #Civil War #Mars

There's the devil to pay.
-- John F. Reynolds

#War #Civil War #Devil

Headquarters in the Saddle.
-- John Pope

#War #Civil War #Saddles

Well, it made you famous.
-- John S. Mosby

#War #Civil War #Made

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!
-- John S. Mosby

#War #Civil War #Dresses

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.
-- Joseph Hooker

#War #Civil War #Telling The Truth

**** it, holler them across.
-- Jubal Early

#War #Civil War

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?
-- Lewis Armistead

#War #Civil War #Virginians

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

#Peace #War #Civil War

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

#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

I done told you twice already goddammit no!
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Civil War #Done

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Civil War #Purpose

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

#War #People #Civil War

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.
-- P. G. T. Beauregard

#War #Hatred #Civil War

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!
-- P. G. T. Beauregard

#War #Gentleman #Civil War

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.
-- Philip Sheridan

#War #Texas #Civil War

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
-- Ralph Nader

#War #Years #Civil War

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
-- Robert E. Lee

#Life And Love #Men #Civil War

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
-- Robert E. Lee

#Wedding #Character #Civil War

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
-- Robert E. Lee

#Failure #Blessing #Civil War

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
-- Robert E. Lee

#War #Civil War #Young

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?
-- Robert M. T. Hunter

#War #Civil War #Protect

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.
-- Sam Houston

#Texas #Names #Civil War

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

#War #Civil War

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.
-- Ted Nugent

#War #Civil War #Wonder

You want one civil war, brah?
-- Tom Brower

#War #Civil War #Marriage Equality

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle,' and the other isn't.
-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Two #Yankees #Civil War

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

#War #Army #Civil War

It will be all right if it turns out all right.
-- Ulysses S. Grant

#War #Civil War #Turns

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
-- Victor Hugo

#War #Civil War #Unjust

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
-- Victor Hugo

#War #Historical #Civil War

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
-- William Eldridge Odom

#War #Hippie #Civil War

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
-- William Nelson

#War #Civil War #Wish

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#War #Civil War #Fields

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

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#Christmas #Cities #Civil War

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#War #Civil War #Disagreeable

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#War #Perfect #Civil War

The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city in 2012.
-- Margaret Warner

#War #Fall #Civil War

Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
-- Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#Stars #Stripes #Civil War

Do you see those colors? Take them!
-- Winfield Scott Hancock

#War #Color #Civil War