Civil war Quotes · Page 67

Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang…

— Vladimir Lenin

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

— William Nelson

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it…

— Robert E. Lee

I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt"…

— Murray Bookchin

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the…

— Chinua Achebe

[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the…

— Robert Hass

“The American Civil War lays out the stark contrast: the greatest generals in war are often abundant failures during peacetime, and vice…

— Nassir Ghaemi

“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

“Great War was from the first the White Civil War,”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most…

— Richard M. Weaver

I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does;…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.”

— Brigitte Gabriel

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage…

— Ilhan Omar

My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned…

— Zebulon Baird Vance

There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any…

— Barney Frank

“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single…

— Robin Schiff

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now…

— James Longstreet

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also…

— Stonewall Jackson