Civil war Quotes

“Western Civil War of Incorporation”

— Richard Maxwell Brown

It's bad. It's damned bad.

— Abraham Lincoln

You want one civil war, brah?

— Tom Brower

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

— Dizzy Reed

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

— John S. Mosby

Now he belongs to the ages.

— Edwin M. Stanton

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

— Michel de Montaigne

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

— Andry Rajoelina

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

— Alek Wek

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Even those who lack tombs are covered by the sky.”

— Lucan

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

— Lucan

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

— Victor Hugo

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

— James Longstreet

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— Sharon Lovejoy

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

— Abraham Lincoln

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become…

— Bruce Catton

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the…

— Robert E. Lee

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of…

— Woodrow Wilson

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to…

— Shelby Foote

“I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move…

— Marc Guggenheim

“We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these…

— George Levy

“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result…

— Alexander Masters

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals.…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with…

— David Brooks

My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil…

— Alek Wek

This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and…

— Jefferson Davis

At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard…

— Arthur Fremantle

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do…

— Robert E. Lee

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held…

— Abraham Lincoln

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the…

— Jefferson Davis

“Trotsky's assault on Kronstadt in March 1921 marked a point of no return. There was no longer even a whiff of pretense…

— Sean McMeekin

“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but…

— Ayn Rand

“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to…

— Frederick Douglass

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during…

— Jim Downs

From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,…

— Daniel Webster

“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission…

— Beth Linker

“Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money…

— Charles Duhigg

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from…

— George Saunders