I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.

It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;…

— Homer Bone

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic.”

— Thomas Sowell

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida…

— Bruce Catton

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

— Abraham Lincoln

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

— William Tecumseh Sherman

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

— Abraham Lincoln

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and…

— John Stuart Mill

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could…

— Abraham Lincoln

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .…

— Alexander H. Stephens

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg…

— Bruce Catton

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

— Bruce Catton

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty…

— Abraham Lincoln

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

— Walt Whitman

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

— Abraham Lincoln