Civil war Quotes

Know what you are talking about.

— Pope John Paul II

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

— Robert E. Lee

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

— Abraham Lincoln

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

— Lewis Armistead

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

— John Brown Gordon

“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”

— Adlai Stevenson

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

— Maxcy Gregg

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

— Abraham Lincoln

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

— Abraham Lincoln

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

— Homer

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

— Bobby Riggs

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

— Abraham Lincoln

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months…

— Marvin Olasky

I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both…

— Bob Seger

Thousands of Liberians settled in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s when their country was devastated by Civil Wars.

— Dean Phillips

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in…

— Edvard Munch

“Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at…

— Herbert Asbury

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated…

— Ed Smith

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery…

— John C. Calhoun

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

— Margaret Warner

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but…

— Harri Holkeri

“(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the…

— Sharon Lovejoy

Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary…

— Craig Kielburger

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction…

— Jeff Greenfield

I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in…

— Rand Paul

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition…

— William Silverman

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by…

— Patrick Cleburne

I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a…

— Sam Watkins

“Secretary Seward, who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State—a long-headed and shrewd politician—prophesied that the war would be over in ninety days; and…

— D.L. Moody

“We all thought Richmond, protected as it was by our splendid fortifications and defended by our army of veterans, could not be…

— Robert E. Lee

“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for…

— George Levy

“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long search for a narrative that could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events…

— Stephen Puleo

“With faulty caps and no artillery present, the Stonewall Brigade fought with knife, bayonet, gun butt, and fist. Those who were able,…

— Charles River Editors

“Hong’s message fired the imagination of millions of desperate Chinese, who were shaken by China’s defeats in the Opium Wars and by…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting…

— Woodrow Wilson