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title: "Popular Civil war Quotes"
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> [Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-toombs/mr-president-at-this-time-it-is-suicide-murder-and-will-lose-us-every/)

[Robert Toombs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-toombs/)

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> [I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-wigfall/i-said-that-one-of-the-causes-and-the-one-that-has-created-more/)

[Louis Wigfall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-wigfall/)

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> [Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-tecumseh-sherman/many-and-many-a-person-in-georgia-asked-me-why-we-did-not-go-to-south/)

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

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> [Rather than making loose and unsubstantiated claims that Obama and Clinton created ISIS, it would behoove Trump if he advanced some real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bergen/rather-than-making-loose-and-unsubstantiated-claims-that-obama-and/)

[Peter Bergen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bergen/)

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> [I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brown/i-am-quite-certain-that-the-crimes-of-this-guilty-land-will-never-be/)

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

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> [If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/if-men-make-war-in-slavish-observance-of-rules-they-will-fail-no/)

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

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> [“that and throughout the Civil War, this single building housed the entirety of the Smithsonian’s collections. But where did this shining testament…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-rollins/that-and-throughout-the-civil-war-this-single-building-housed-the/)

[James Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-rollins/)

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> [ “that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger \[and\] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/that-in-the-midst-of-murders-and-civil-wars-our-republic-became/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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> [“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/our-world-is-suffering-from-metastatic-cancer-stage-4-racism-has/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

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> [“I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-t-sherman/i-have-for-some-days-held-and-controlled-every-avenue-by-which-the/)

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

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> [“Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the “Pepper Coast” and on July 26, 1847,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-seawater-one/freed-slaves-returned-to-africa-settled-in-a-section-of-what-was/)

[Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/captain-hank-bracker-seawater-one/)

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> [Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marco-rubio/moammar-gadhafi-and-the-revolt-against-gadhafi-was-not-started-by-the/)

[Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marco-rubio/)

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> [So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/so-about-80-years-after-the-constitution-is-ratified-the-slaves-are/)

[George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/)

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> [Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-coulter/republicans-have-reached-out-so-much-to-black-republicans-because-it/)

[Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-coulter/)

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> [“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-iles/not-far-away-lay-the-big-cannons-that-had-held-ulysses-grant-at-bay/)

[Greg Iles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-iles/)

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> [Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/up-until-the-late-unpleasantness-of-the-civil-war-then-the-right-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/whenever-you-re-trying-to-do-a-film-in-a-genuine-historical-period/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-rhodes/in-order-to-save-the-forty-million-inhabitants-of-the-united-kingdom/)

[Cecil Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-rhodes/)

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> [I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-capehart/i-know-i-m-going-back-some-decades-but-i-ll-never-forget-the/)

[Jonathan Capehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-capehart/)

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> [During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-kinzer/during-the-1980s-international-interest-in-the-nicaraguan-war-was/)

[Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-kinzer/)

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> [In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-cox-richardson/in-1884-for-the-first-time-since-the-civil-war-voters-had-elected-a/)

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

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> [You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-tecumseh-sherman/you-people-of-the-south-don-t-know-what-you-are-doing-this-country-2/)

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

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> [Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-catton/here-was-the-greatest-and-most-moving-chapter-in-american-history-a/)

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

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> [Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/men-of-color-to-arms-the-case-is-before-you-this-is-our-golden/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-coleman/there-were-315-000-slave-owners-in-the-union-army-with-200-000-in-the/)

[John Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-coleman/)

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> [The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-catton/the-civil-war-was-fought-in-10-000-places-from-valverde-new-mexico/)

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

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> [America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/america-is-a-land-of-big-dreamers-and-big-hopes-it-is-this-hope-that/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-michael-straczynski/compromise-where-you-can-where-you-can-t-don-t-even-if-everyone-is/)

[J. Michael Straczynski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-michael-straczynski/)

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> [And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charley-reese/and-just-think-fellow-southrons-what-kind-of-a-confederate-nation-we/)

[Charley Reese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charley-reese/)

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> [I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-c-blair/i-think-you-can-go-back-in-history-and-look-at-what-the-effect-in/)

[Dennis C. Blair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-c-blair/)

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> [Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-cox-richardson/republicans-controlled-the-federal-government-for-decades-after-the/)

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

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> [I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-longstreet/i-have-been-a-soldier-all-my-life-i-have-commanded-companies-i-have/)

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

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> [I'm not an apologist for Iran's actions. Iran certainly has supported activities of terrorism, and the Houthis don't have clean hands. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ro-khanna/i-m-not-an-apologist-for-iran-s-actions-iran-certainly-has-supported/)

[Ro Khanna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ro-khanna/)

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> [Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-howard-russell/little-did-i-conceive-of-the-greatness-of-the-defeat-at-bull-run-the/)

[William Howard Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-howard-russell/)

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> [The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-calhoun/the-day-that-the-balance-between-the-two-sections-of-the-country-the/)

[John C. Calhoun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-calhoun/)

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> [We went through tough times when I was very young and I'm so infinitely grateful to my parents. Their journey began during…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonso-davies/we-went-through-tough-times-when-i-was-very-young-and-i-m-so/)

[Alphonso Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonso-davies/)

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> [“Maybe it’s true that the people who live through the times that become history’s pivotal points are those least likely to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-hegland/maybe-it-s-true-that-the-people-who-live-through-the-times-that/)

[Jean Hegland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-hegland/)

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> [I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/i-can-anticipate-no-greater-calamity-for-the-country-than-the/)

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

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> [If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcee-hastings/if-today-is-anything-like-the-typical-day-of-the-past-3-years-three/)

[Alcee Hastings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcee-hastings/)

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> [Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/some-of-the-inspirations-i-had-as-far-as-following-that-story-would/)

[Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/)

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                        "text": "“that and throughout the Civil War, this single building housed the entirety of the Smithsonian’s collections. But where did this shining testament to science get its true start? Oddly enough, it wasn’t an American who founded the institution,”",
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                        "text": "“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with bigotry of all kinds, justifying all kinds of inequities by victim blaming; heightening exploitation and misplaced hate; spurring mass shootings, arms races, and demagogues who polarize nations, shutting down essential organs of democracy; and threatening the life of human society with nuclear war and climate change. In the United States, the metastatic cancer has been spreading, contracting, and threatening to kill the American body as it nearly did before its birth, as it nearly did during its Civil War. But how many people stare inside the body of their nations' racial inequities, their neighborhoods' racial inequities, their occupations' racial inequities, their institutions' racial inequities, and flatly deny that their policies are racist? They flatly deny that racial inequity is a signpost of racist policy. They flatly deny the racist policy as they use racist ideas to justify the racial inequity. They flatly deny the cancer of racism as the cancer cells spread and literally threaten their own lives and the lives of the people and spaces and places they hold dear. The popular conception of denial--like the popular strategy of suasion--is suicidal.”",
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                        "text": "“I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and I am therefore justified in demanding the surrender of the city…I am prepared to grant liberal terms to the inhabitants and garrison; but should I be forced to resort to assault, or the slower and surer process of starvation, I shall then feel justified in resorting to the harshest measures, and shall make little effort to restrain my army—burning to avenge the national wrong which they attach to Savannah and other large cities which have been so prominent in dragging our country into civil war.”",
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                        "text": "“Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the “Pepper Coast” and on July 26, 1847, issued a Declaration of Independence and established a constitution based on the political principles denoted in the United States Constitution. In doing so they established the independent Republic of Liberia. Law and Order was something the ruling class of Liberians prided themselves on. The Americo Liberians, as they called themselves, were uber-Conservatives and had a glorified picture of what the American government was like. As Conservatives they saw themselves living a privileged lifestyle, sustained by their faith in God and the blessings that had been bestowed upon them by this deity. Amongst themselves there was much talk about the subjects of freedom, liberty, democracy and independence. They felt that these idealisms were deserved because of their exceptionalism. Taking a page from the concept of American exceptionalism, they fantasied of their very own Liberian exceptionalism, completely forgetting the indigenous natives living among them. Whereas the Americo Liberians lived an affluent lifestyle reflecting the antebellum era in the Southern tier of the United States, the local blacks, for the greatest part lived in squalor. In 1980, a violent military coup shattered the way of life in Liberia. Led by army Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, the country’s ruling group of Americo-Liberians were brutally overthrown and frequently executed. Doe's term as President of Liberia led to a period of civil wars, resulting in the devastation of Liberia’s economy. Liberia became one of the most impoverished nations in the world, in which most of the population still lives below the international poverty line.”",
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                        "text": "Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.",
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                        "text": "So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: \"Civil War.\" Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? \"Say, pardon me?\" (shoots gun) \"I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry.\"",
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                        "text": "Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most other Americans with the possible exception of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The first blacks in Congress and the first black Governor were all Republicans. It was Republicans who fought the Civil War over slavery and who introduced the Civil Rights legislation over the next hundred years.",
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                        "text": "Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.",
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                        "text": "America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.",
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                        "text": "And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.",
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