If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.” — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“the Confederacy had been poisoned by more jealousies than a hundred high-bred gals could muster in competition for a single male.” — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
“We were raised Methodists,” Sue said. “But we converted to the Confederacy. There wasn’t time for both.” “War is hell,” Ed deadpanned.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Those who were die-hard supporters of the Confederacy, including many slaveholders, fled farther south to Texas, where they settled down to rebuild… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy… — John Brough Copy Share Image
In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and… — Calvin Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Many also forget that the international campaign in solidarity with the Union under the Lincoln presidency rallied at a time when it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed… — Burke Davis Copy Share Image
“History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. — Tamara Feldman Copy Share Image
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
![“The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/645/john-stuart-mill-477_affair_the-triumph-of-the-confederacy-would-be_182321.jpg)
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