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title: "Famous Civil war Qoutes"
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> [War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/war-at-the-best-is-terrible-and-this-war-of-ours-in-its-magnitude-and/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-chernow/reconstruction-is-the-great-black-hole-that-remains-to-be-filled-even/)

[Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-chernow/)

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> [“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-grewal/how-a-member-of-the-church-one-who-had-read-the-good-lord-s-bible/)

[Jay Grewal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-grewal/)

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> [Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-corneille/liberty-may-be-of-no-more-use-than-stirring-up-the-flame-of-civil/)

[Pierre Corneille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-corneille/)

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> [Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilhan-omar/life-in-somalia-before-the-civil-war-was-beautiful-when-the-war/)

[Ilhan Omar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilhan-omar/)

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> [“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-lovejoy/readers-will-be-swept-up-by-the-drama-and-fast-pace-of-this-powerful/)

[Sharon Lovejoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-lovejoy/)

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> [“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-masters/put-two-macho-groups-together-and-give-the-first-desperation-and/)

[Alexander Masters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-masters/)

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> [As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-russo/as-filmmakers-we-love-ambitious-storytelling-it-s-one-of-the-reasons/)

[Joe Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-russo/)

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> [“Reflecting on the recurrent civil wars of the Late Republic, Sallust said, “It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-duncan/reflecting-on-the-recurrent-civil-wars-of-the-late-republic-sallust/)

[Mike Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-duncan/)

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> [We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-boykin-chesnut/we-are-scattered-stunned-the-remnant-of-heart-left-alive-is-filled/)

[Mary Boykin Chesnut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-boykin-chesnut/)

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> [Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fessenden-morse/pity-for-these-inhabitants-i-have-none-in-the-first-place-they-are/)

[Charles Fessenden Morse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fessenden-morse/)

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> [Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-pavese/now-that-i-ve-seen-what-war-is-what-civil-war-is-i-know-that/)

[Cesare Pavese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-pavese/)

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> [Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/such-an-executive-officer-the-sun-never-shone-on-i-have-but-to-show/)

[Robert E. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-e-lee/)

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> [“if at all, since the Civil War. In Greenwood, many black workers were still earning 30 cents an hour and returning huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bell/if-at-all-since-the-civil-war-in-greenwood-many-black-workers-were/)

[Ian Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bell/)

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> [It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/it-is-now-conceded-that-all-idea-of-british-intervention-is-at-an-end/)

[Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/)

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> [ As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between \[Joseph\] Stalin and \[Adolf\] Hitler, I'd pick… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mara-liasson/as-one-conservative-intellectual-said-to-me-he-said-if-the-choice-is/)

[Mara Liasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mara-liasson/)

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> [From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-webster/from-the-accession-of-henry-the-seventh-to-the-breaking-out-of-the/)

[Daniel Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-webster/)

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> [“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-linker/after-witnessing-conditions-of-overcrowding-and-poor-ventilation-in/)

[Beth Linker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-linker/)

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> [Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-henry-chamberlin/famine-was-quite-deliberately-employed-as-an-instrument-of-national/)

[William Henry Chamberlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-henry-chamberlin/)

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> [I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-helms/i-m-working-on-a-script-right-about-civil-war-re-enactors-who-go-back/)

[Ed Helms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-helms/)

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> [“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/you-had-to-have-these-peasant-leaders-quickly-in-this-sort-of-war-and/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

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> [Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-friedman/because-the-us-has-control-of-the-sea-because-the-us-has-built-up-its/)

[George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-friedman/)

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> [“As the story is told, determined to inspire his men to take the offensive, Jackson suddenly rode into the battlefield and attempted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-river-editors/as-the-story-is-told-determined-to-inspire-his-men-to-take-the/)

[Charles River Editors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-river-editors/)

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> [I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-see-the-president-almost-every-day-i-see-very-plainly-abraham/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [“We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-levy/we-also-ate-all-the-rats-we-could-catch-no-doubt-many-died-after-the/)

[George Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-levy/)

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> [“I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-guggenheim/i-am-not-going-to-kill-you-first-i-m-going-to-beat-on-you-for-a-few/)

[Marc Guggenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-guggenheim/)

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> [The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-civil-war-created-in-this-country-what-had-never-existed-before-a/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

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> [And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelby-foote/and-i-m-a-slow-writer-five-six-hundred-words-is-a-good-day-that-s-the/)

[Shelby Foote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shelby-foote/)

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> [A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/a-union-that-can-only-be-maintained-by-swords-and-bayonets-and-in/)

[Robert E. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-e-lee/)

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> [Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-catton/between-1861-and-1865-americans-made-war-on-each-other-and-killed/)

[Bruce Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-catton/)

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> [Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/sending-armies-to-mcclellan-is-like-shoveling-fleas-across-a-barnyard/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-cohen/it-was-not-until-the-civil-rights-movement-of-the-1950s-and-60s-that/)

[Adam Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-cohen/)

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> [Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-ambrose/winning-the-revolutionary-war-or-the-civil-war-or-world-war-ii-were/)

[Stephen Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-ambrose/)

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> [The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-seward/the-two-systems-slave-and-free-labor-are-incompatible-they-have-never/)

[William H. Seward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-h-seward/)

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> [“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-b-brewer/ain-t-nothing-too-serious-even-death-is-a-joke-on-the-old-devil-if-we/)

[Nancy B. Brewer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-b-brewer/)

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> ['Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-holland/civil-war-was-such-a-whirlwind-and-i-didn-t-really-know-what-was/)

[Tom Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-holland/)

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> [The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lee-miller/the-us-did-not-have-any-big-supply-of-good-generals-in-civil-war-and/)

[William Lee Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lee-miller/)

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> [It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-clarke/it-would-be-immoral-to-walk-away-from-the-consequences-of-our-actions/)

[Kenneth Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-clarke/)

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> [The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-icke/the-goldschmidts-had-joined-forces-with-other-rothschild-cousins-the/)

[David Icke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-icke/)

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> [General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-longstreet/general-grant-had-no-fixed-plan-of-campaign-beyond-the-general-idea/)

[James Longstreet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-longstreet/)

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