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title: "Best Civil war Quotes"
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> [Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/wherever-the-enemy-goes-let-our-troops-go-also/)

[Ulysses S. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulysses-s-grant/)

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> [Mars is not an aesthetic God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brown-gordon/mars-is-not-an-aesthetic-god/)

[John Brown Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-brown-gordon/)

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> [Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-armistead/virginians-with-me-who-will-come-with-me/)

Lewis Armistead

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> [He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/he-has-got-the-slows-mr-blair/)

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

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> [He has lost his left arm, but I my right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/he-has-lost-his-left-arm-but-i-my-right/)

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

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> [Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/let-us-strive-on-to-finish-the-work-we-are-in/)

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

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> [My God! My God! What will the country say?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/my-god-my-god-what-will-the-country-say/)

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

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> [Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonse-de-lamartine/civil-wars-leave-nothing-but-tombs/)

[Alphonse de Lamartine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonse-de-lamartine/)

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> [I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yasmine-hamdan/i-was-born-in-the-middle-of-lebanon-s-civil-war/)

[Yasmine Hamdan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yasmine-hamdan/)

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> [We need a comprehensive strategy to bring about an end to the Syrian civil war and defeat Isis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-streeting/we-need-a-comprehensive-strategy-to-bring-about-an-end-to-the-syrian/)

[Wes Streeting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-streeting/)

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> [Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/iraq-is-in-a-civil-war-there-is-no-road-in-that-country-that-is-safe/)

[Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/)

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> [“talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 when the Republic of China government”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/talks-since-the-end-of-the-chinese-civil-war-in-1949-when-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-l-petigru/south-carolina-is-too-small-for-a-republic-and-too-large-for-an/)

James L. Petigru

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> [I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/i-picked-up-this-book-called-blue-mountain-supposed-to-be-a-really/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-m-cist/there-is-nothing-finer-in-history-than-thomas-at-chickamauga/)

Henry M. Cist

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> [You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-x/you-d-have-civil-war-you-d-have-a-race-war-in-this-country/)

[Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-x/)

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> [America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-douthat/america-s-gravest-moral-evil-chattel-slavery-was-defeated-by-an/)

[Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-douthat/)

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> [In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-stevenson/in-a-landscape-littered-with-all-of-this-imagery-about-the-nobility/)

[Bryan Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-stevenson/)

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> [In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/in-the-present-civil-war-it-is-quite-possible-that-god-s-purpose-is/)

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

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> [“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-b-brewer/she-turned-her-painted-blue-eyes-toward-the-assistant-and-said/)

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

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> [Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/civil-war-what-did-the-words-mean-was-there-any-such-thing-as-foreign-2/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-fund/the-civil-war-was-about-a-lot-of-things-but-the-core-of-it-was/)

[John Fund](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-fund/)

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> [Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/let-the-erring-sisters-depart-in-peace-the-idea-of-getting-up-a-civil/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

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> [I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-never-again-to-think-of-marrying-and/)

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

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> [During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-cox-richardson/during-the-civil-war-the-united-states-government-had-organized-new/)

[Heather Cox Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-cox-richardson/)

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> [I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-ve-been-reading-about-and-writing-about-the-civil-war-period-and-it/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [“At least 600,000 men died in the Civil War. Major battles numbered the dead in the thousands; even minor skirmishes killed hundreds...Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-shaw-pauadan/at-least-600-000-men-died-in-the-civil-war-major-battles-numbered-the/)

Phillip Shaw Pauadan

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> [Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-del-toro/every-movie-i-complicate-i-make-the-hard-choices-i-remember-when-i/)

[Guillermo del Toro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillermo-del-toro/)

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> [“Above all, Franco understood how to take advantage of opportunities when they arose. His natural caution and conservatism proved particularly valuable during…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-jensen/above-all-franco-understood-how-to-take-advantage-of-opportunities/)

[Geoffrey Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-jensen/)

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> [Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/throughout-the-three-decades-preceding-the-civil-war-the-anticlerical/)

[Susan Jacoby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-jacoby/)

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> [We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-gore/we-now-face-the-prospect-of-a-kind-of-global-civil-war-between-those/)

[Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-gore/)

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> [From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-schama/from-the-days-of-the-founding-fathers-right-to-this-2008-election-how/)

[Simon Schama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-schama/)

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> [“The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which compared ‘food versus cash’ in four countries, found that in three of the four –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-un-s-world-food-programme-wfp-which-compared-food-versus-cash-in/)

[Guy Standing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-standing/)

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> [“The collapse of order brings in its wake the four horsemen of the apocalypse - famine, war, pestilence, and death. Population declines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-turchin/the-collapse-of-order-brings-in-its-wake-the-four-horsemen-of-the/)

Peter Turchin

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> [The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-will-of-god-prevails-in-great-contests-each-party-claims-to-act-2/)

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

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> [We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/we-have-heard-all-of-our-lives-how-after-the-civil-war-was-over-the/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

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> [I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ransom-riggs/i-ve-never-really-been-interested-in-the-vintage-photos-people-pay/)

[Ransom Riggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ransom-riggs/)

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> [“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-befumo/while-the-sanitizers-and-rewriters-of-history-have-gone-to-enormous/)

[Joseph Befumo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-befumo/)

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> [If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/if-we-trace-origins-of-anarchism-in-the-united-states-then-probably/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [“The end of something, that specific mid-century American upper-middle-class WASP East Coast thing, the mercantile remnant of the Puritans, the ruling class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-bromell/the-end-of-something-that-specific-mid-century-american-upper-middle/)

[Henry Bromell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-bromell/)

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                        "text": "From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate question in its politics. The one that triggers rage and sorrow; the one that asks is the price of blood too dear? Or, if it is to stay true to its convictions, does America have no coice but to put its lives on the line?",
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                        "text": "“The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which compared ‘food versus cash’ in four countries, found that in three of the four – Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen (before the civil war) – cash transfers led to better nutrition at lower cost, meaning many more people could be helped for the same outlay. (In the fourth, Niger, severe seasonal food shortages meant that in-kind deliveries improved dietary diversity more than cash.)54 This has led the WFP to put more emphasis on cash transfers; today, just over a quarter of WFP’s aid globally is cash-based.”",
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                        "text": "“The collapse of order brings in its wake the four horsemen of the apocalypse - famine, war, pestilence, and death. Population declines, and wages increase, while rents decrease. As incomes of commoners recover, the fortunes of the upper classes hit the bottom. Economic distress of the elites and lack of effective government feed the continuing internecine wars. But civil wars thin the ranks of the elites. Some die in factional fighting, others succumb to feuds with neighbors, and many just give up on trying to maintain their noble status and quietly slip into the ranks of the commoners. Intra-elite competition subsides, allowing order to be restored. Stability and internal peace bring prosperity, and another secular cycle begins. 'So peace brings warre and warre brings peace.”",
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