Civil war Quotes · Page 15

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

— Robert E. Lee

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

— William C. Oates

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

— Jack Scalia

“It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”

— Kelsey Brickl

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

— Abraham Lincoln

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

— Abraham Lincoln

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

— Benjamin Butler

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a…

— Noam Chomsky

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

— Anthony H. Cordesman

“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great…

— Abraham Lincoln

Civil War, I'm front line my mind like Sherman My gat like Ulysses, grant them bullets, keep burnin'.

— Gorilla Zoe

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place…

— Simon Newcomb

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

— Lovell Rousseau

“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.”

— Clint Johnson

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas…

— Dick Durbin

“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this tragic event in the American past, democracy is no longer being threatened by secession,…

— John Fea

“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,…

— Frank E. Vandiver

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about…

— Shelby Foote

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It…

— Abraham Lincoln

All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and…

— Martin Amis

Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in…

— Rex W. Tillerson

Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud…

— Alek Wek

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before…

— Adam Hochschild

“With the gun which was too big for him, the breech-loader which did not even belong to him but to Major de…

— William Faulkner

“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is…

— Werner Neff

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,…

— Clive Barker

“In Julia’s view, the Dent slaves were all “very happy. At least they were in mamma’s time, though the young ones became…

— Ron Chernow

“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Chinua Achebe

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

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

— Nicholas Sparks

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members”

— Carter F. Smith

“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”

— Gertrude Stein

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

— Cary Fukunaga

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

— Alexander H. Stephens

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

— Ted Nugent