Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America. — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
“. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .” — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis.… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our… — Jefferson Davis 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
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
“He immediately had Rawlins summon stretcher bearers, but was dismayed when they removed the Union officer and overlooked the Confederate private. “Take… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“I've heard of more ways to die in this war than I knew there were corpses. I've heard there isn't a battle… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men.… — Carl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding… — George Pickett Copy Share Image
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if - that flag - in… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no… — Ken Page Copy Share Image
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I'm from Anderson, S.C., but I grew up in the South. So I know what it is to ride to school and… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry:… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Quite often, people inaccurately comment about the villains of the South and the heroes of the North. Such statements cause bitter debates.… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image