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title: "Great Civil war Words"
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> [“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-c-sellar-2/with-the-ascension-of-charles-i-to-the-throne-we-come-at-last-to-the/)

[W.C. Sellar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-c-sellar-2/)

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> [The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-collins/the-middle-of-america-s-women-is-about-the-civil-war-and-how-women/)

[Gail Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-collins/)

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> [Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-rice/syria-is-a-civil-war-syria-began-as-a-popular-uprising-just-like-the/)

[Susan Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-rice/)

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> [“Climate change is not just about melting icebergs, storm surges, floods, and droughts, according to Parenti. A warmer world will be more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-marsa/climate-change-is-not-just-about-melting-icebergs-storm-surges-floods/)

[Linda Marsa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-marsa/)

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> [Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-mason/is-it-to-be-expected-that-the-southern-states-will-deliver-themselves/)

[George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-mason/)

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> [“Directly in front of me, crossing the street, I saw a woman laughing and walking arm in arm with two men. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-b-brewer/directly-in-front-of-me-crossing-the-street-i-saw-a-woman-laughing/)

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

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> [A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eustace-mullins/a-hastily-written-civil-rights-act-was-rushed-through-congress/)

[Eustace Mullins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eustace-mullins/)

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> [We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-have-as-all-will-agree-a-free-government-where-every-man-has-a/)

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

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> [An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-yoo/an-american-leader-would-be-derelict-of-duty-if-he-did-not-seek-to/)

[John Yoo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-yoo/)

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> [“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-supiot/law-is-neither-a-divine-revelation-nor-a-scientific-discovery-it-is-a/)

Alain Supiot

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> [“Inasmuch as he had relieved Johnston and appointed Hood, and Hood had immediately taken the initiative, it is natural to suppose that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/inasmuch-as-he-had-relieved-johnston-and-appointed-hood-and-hood-had/)

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

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> [“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-horwitz/michael-king-was-a-young-preacher-with-horn-rimmed-glasses-and-a/)

[Tony Horwitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-horwitz/)

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> [“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-emmerson/the-mantle-of-a-great-power-was-inescapable-was-it-better-to-extend/)

[Charles Emmerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-emmerson/)

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> [“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-tree/nancy-now-gave-herself-to-the-wider-problems-surrounding-friends-and/)

Iris Tree

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> [“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/candice-millard/for-the-first-time-in-their-memory-certainly-since-the-earliest/)

[Candice Millard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/candice-millard/)

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> [“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-john-neuhaus/when-one-speaks-of-religion-influencing-public-policy-the-immediate/)

[Richard John Neuhaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-john-neuhaus/)

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> [“It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-s-greenberg/it-is-no-accident-then-that-each-of-our-major-wars-has-served-to/)

[Edward S. Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-s-greenberg/)

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> [We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-scheuer/we-ve-gone-thorough-religious-wars-and-civil-wars-america-has-gone/)

[Michael Scheuer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-scheuer/)

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> [What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-young/what-we-forget-is-that-african-americans-made-the-largest/)

[Andrew Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-young/)

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> [The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corey-stewart/the-question-of-what-actually-caused-the-civil-war-is-secondary-to/)

[Corey Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corey-stewart/)

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> [“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/tolstoi-made-the-writing-of-stephen-crane-on-the-civil-war-seem-like/)

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

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> [Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jefferson-davis/without-doing-injustice-to-the-living-it-may-safely-be-asserted-that/)

[Jefferson Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jefferson-davis/)

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> [I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drew-gilpin-faust/i-think-that-the-firepower-of-the-civil-war-the-numbers-of-bodies/)

[Drew Gilpin Faust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drew-gilpin-faust/)

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> [I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-have-not-permitted-myself-gentlemen-to-conclude-that-i-am-the-best/)

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

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> [I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-tecumseh-sherman/i-m-a-damned-sight-smarter-than-grant-i-know-more-about-organization/)

[William Tecumseh Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-tecumseh-sherman/)

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> [“Our central thesis is that some inventions are more important than others, and that the revolutionary century after the Civil War was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-j-gordon/our-central-thesis-is-that-some-inventions-are-more-important-than/)

[Robert J. Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-j-gordon/)

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> [The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-nance/the-2003-war-in-iraq-may-be-considered-the-greatest-error-in-american/)

[Malcolm Nance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-nance/)

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> [Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-junger/often-people-who-live-through-the-trauma-are-nostalgic-when-it-s-over/)

[Sebastian Junger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-junger/)

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> [Deanell Tacha and I decided to write an editorial, because both of us have had experiences in countries where the rule of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-minow/deanell-tacha-and-i-decided-to-write-an-editorial-because-both-of-us/)

[Martha Minow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-minow/)

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> [I grew up in Georgia where my parents, little brother Zurab and I shared a flat with my paternal grandparents and two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-melua/i-grew-up-in-georgia-where-my-parents-little-brother-zurab-and-i/)

[Katie Melua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-melua/)

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> [“The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/the-terror-and-consternation-of-the-presidential-couple-may-be/)

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

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> [I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-banisadr/i-sometimes-say-the-conflict-in-the-work-is-the-conflict-of-my-own/)

[Ali Banisadr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-banisadr/)

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> [“For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-armitage/for-many-romans-civil-war-remained-the-war-that-dared-not-speak-its/)

David Armitage

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> [Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/mr-blair-i-look-upon-secession-as-anarchy-if-i-owned-the-four/)

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

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> [“Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/fight-it-must-but-let-that-fight-be-not-a-civil-war-against-its-own/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

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> [In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/in-glades-they-meet-skull-after-skull-where-pine-cones-lay-the-rusted/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drew-gilpin-faust/as-a-kid-i-was-growing-up-in-an-era-of-celebration-of-the-civil-war/)

[Drew Gilpin Faust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drew-gilpin-faust/)

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> [The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/the-prejudice-of-the-race-appears-stronger-in-the-states-that-have/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [During the Civil War, the Underground Railroad became a spy network, so we could still have fresh stories for these characters years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/misha-green/during-the-civil-war-the-underground-railroad-became-a-spy-network-so/)

[Misha Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/misha-green/)

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> [“There is such a weight of history behind this that it makes Valerio feel weak. He has never experienced anything of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sahar-delijani/there-is-such-a-weight-of-history-behind-this-that-it-makes-valerio/)

[Sahar Delijani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sahar-delijani/)

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                        "text": "Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.",
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                        "text": "Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.",
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                        "text": "A hastily written \"Civil Rights Act\" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with the several states, and that \"the tendency of the bill is to resuscitate the spirit of rebellion\".",
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                        "text": "We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.",
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                        "text": "An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances. Presidents Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II sought legal advice about the outer bounds of their power - even if they did not always use it. Our leaders should ask legal questions first, before setting policy or making decisions in a fog of uncertainty.",
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                        "text": "“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those who claim to study it and who cannot remain blind to the values implied by their interpretations. Every society must develop a vision of justice that is shared by all its members, in order to avoid civil war, and this is what the legal framework provides. Whereas conceptions of justice differ from epoch to epoch and from country to country, the need for a shared representation of justice in a particular country and at a particular time does not. The legal system is where this representation takes shape and, although it may well be contradicted by the facts, it gives shared meaning and a common orientation to people’s actions.”",
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                        "text": "“Inasmuch as he had relieved Johnston and appointed Hood, and Hood had immediately taken the initiative, it is natural to suppose that Mr. Davis was disappointed with General Johnston’s policy. My own judgment is that Johnston acted very wisely: he husbanded his men and saved as much of his territory as he could, without fighting decisive battles in which all might be lost. As Sherman advanced, as I have show, his army became spread out, until, if this had been continued, it would have been easy to destroy it in detail. I know that both Sherman and I were rejoiced when we heard of the change. Hood was unquestionably a brave, gallant soldier and not destitute of ability; but unfortunately his policy was to fight the enemy wherever he saw him, without thinking much of the consequences of defeat.”",
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                        "text": "“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. \"The Bible says, if eating meat offends your brother, eat meat no more,\" he said. \"Worship of the Confederacy offends me.\" \"When I asked why, he walked me to the Confederate monument, which occupied a median strip on Salisbury's busiest street. The 1909 memorial depicted a bronze angel cradling a dying rebel soldier and holding forth a laurel crown. Chiseled on the granite base was the Confederate motto, Deo Vindice. With God As Our Defender. \"What's the message here?\" King said. \"God dispatched an angel to ferry this brave rebel to heaven. As a Christian pastor, I got a problem with that. The whole notion that God was involved with one race putting down another, that's going against the grain of a Christian nation. God ain't with racism or anything to do with subdividing people.”",
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                        "text": "“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One much disputed loyalty to an American Negro fired her to battle for recognition for his people, compiling and publishing her \"Negro Anthology.\" Another friendship drew her to Spain during the Civil War, in which she participated actively on the side of freedom and composed a series of Spanish poems. Because of these and further deviations from the United status quo, she was refused permission to re-enter America, where she had hoped to join her closest companion, whose absence in Europe left her solitary at heart. On Nancy Cunard”",
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                        "text": "“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of Garfield’s ordeal felt a deep and surprising connection to one another. Divided by vast stretches of dangerous wilderness and stark differences in race, religion, and culture, there had been little beyond severely strained notions of common citizenship to unite them. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln sixteen years earlier had only deepened that divide. But the attempt on Garfield’s life aroused feelings of patriotism that many Americans had long since forgotten, or never knew they had.”",
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