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title: "Popular Civil war Quotations"
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> [This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/this-is-essentially-a-people-s-contest-whose-leading-object-is-to/)

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

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> [The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eustace-mullins/the-thirteenth-amendment-to-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-was/)

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

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> [I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-houston/i-declare-that-civil-war-is-inevitable-and-is-near-at-hand-when-it-2/)

[Sam Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-houston/)

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> [I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-burns/i-think-we-continually-need-to-understand-how-important-an-event-the/)

[Ken Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-burns/)

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> [I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/i-ve-just-always-had-a-personal-fascination-with-the-myth-of-abraham/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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> [“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-grewal/that-was-when-i-realized-we-weren-t-born-to-be-slaves-it-was-ignorant/)

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

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> [Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/both-read-the-same-bible-and-pray-to-the-same-god-and-each-invokes/)

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

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> [When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-quintus-cincinnatus-lamar-ii/when-a-nation-has-just-emerged-from-the-throes-of-a-great-civil/)

[Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-quintus-cincinnatus-lamar-ii/)

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> [I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-houston/i-declare-that-civil-war-is-inevitable-and-is-near-at-hand-when-it/)

[Sam Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-houston/)

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> [“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-vanderhaeghe/news-of-the-disaster-at-little-bighorn-reached-the-eastern-seaboard/)

[Guy Vanderhaeghe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-vanderhaeghe/)

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> [“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-fact-that-the-crime-and-the-punishment-were-related-and-bound-up/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [“The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-brown/the-cold-buried-deep-inside-the-bones-of-her-hands-her-feet-her-head/)

[Sheridan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-brown/)

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> [While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutherford-b-hayes/while-i-am-in-favor-of-the-government-promptly-enforcing-the-laws-for/)

[Rutherford B. Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutherford-b-hayes/)

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> [ “\[U\]nless one is to yield to biological determinism and accept that the possession of black sin creates a unique black mentality and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-m-schlesinger-jr-2/u-nless-one-is-to-yield-to-biological-determinism-and-accept-that-the/)

[Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-m-schlesinger-jr-2/)

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> [“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-koestler/i-think-most-historians-would-agree-that-the-part-played-by-impulses/)

[Arthur Koestler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-koestler/)

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> [“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/a-year-earlier-representatives-of-thirteen-states-had-assembled-in/)

[Richard M. Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-ketchum/)

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> [There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-frank/there-are-no-moderate-republicans-left-with-the-exception-of-a-few/)

[Barney Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-frank/)

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> [“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hicks/i-wanted-to-leave-the-whole-war-behind-me-and-yet-i-was-seeing/)

[Robert Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hicks/)

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> [In the last couple of years before Chairman Mao's death he said that the "Cultural Revolution" had been wrong on two counts:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deng-xiaoping/in-the-last-couple-of-years-before-chairman-mao-s-death-he-said-that/)

[Deng Xiaoping](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deng-xiaoping/)

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> [“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-returns-from-cotton-monopoly-powered-the-modernization-of-the/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

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> [Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-cooper/some-people-cling-to-the-belief-that-the-civil-war-was-fought-over/)

[Roy Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-cooper/)

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> [I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cary-fukunaga/i-used-to-do-civil-war-re-enacting-between-the-ages-of-15-and-19-i/)

[Cary Fukunaga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cary-fukunaga/)

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> [The world has grown increasingly dangerous, with a nuclear madman in North Korea testing an ICBM a month, mullahs in Tehran plotting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-o-brien/the-world-has-grown-increasingly-dangerous-with-a-nuclear-madman-in/)

[Robert C. O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-o-brien/)

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> [What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-hutton/what-is-unique-about-drogheda-is-the-very-large-number-of-protestants/)

[Ronald Hutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-hutton/)

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> [The cool thing is, I was a little nervous about how they were going to handle Black Panther in his own movie,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-stelfreeze/the-cool-thing-is-i-was-a-little-nervous-about-how-they-were-going-to/)

[Brian Stelfreeze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-stelfreeze/)

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> [The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-patrick-maloney/the-latest-developments-in-iraq-are-deeply-troubling-but-as-the/)

[Sean Patrick Maloney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-patrick-maloney/)

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> [There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/there-is-a-terrible-war-coming-and-these-young-men-who-have-never/)

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

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> [Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niall-ferguson/empires-essentially-create-order-in-their-absence-you-don-t-end-up/)

[Niall Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niall-ferguson/)

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> [“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-silverman/racial-hatred-in-america-still-exists-but-never-was-it-anything-like/)

[William Silverman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-silverman/)

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> [ \[...\] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-edward-griffin/it-is-generally-accepted-that-the-civil-war-was-fought-over-the-issue/)

[G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-edward-griffin/)

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> [Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mccullough/unlike-the-people-you-see-in-mathew-brady-s-photographs-from-the/)

[David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mccullough/)

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> [Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-engel/women-who-enjoyed-a-high-social-status-and-levels-of-education-under/)

[Richard Engel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-engel/)

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> [As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-harvey-hill/as-each-brigade-emerged-from-the-woods-from-50-to-100-guns-opened/)

[Daniel Harvey Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-harvey-hill/)

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> [“When the masses are against you, when fear is on every side, and when it seems like you are standing alone, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ammar-habib/when-the-masses-are-against-you-when-fear-is-on-every-side-and-when/)

[Ammar Habib](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ammar-habib/)

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> [I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ger-duany/i-was-born-into-sudan-s-civil-war-and-before-i-could-read-or-write-i/)

[Ger Duany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ger-duany/)

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> [Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-hertzberg/jewish-fundamentalism-is-teaching-that-jews-can-fight-with-guns-and/)

[Arthur Hertzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-hertzberg/)

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> [During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm \[of Stonewall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-horwitz/during-a-mock-battle-attended-by-president-warren-harding-in-1921/)

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

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> [Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/some-of-the-greatest-spiritual-revivals-in-the-past-occurred-just/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/people-here-are-quite-struck-aback-at-sunday-s-news-of-the-capture-of/)

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

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> [“The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War, when more than 400,000 pioneers made the trek between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rinker-buck/the-exodus-across-the-plains-in-the-fifteen-years-before-the-civil/)

[Rinker Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rinker-buck/)

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                        "text": "I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.",
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                        "text": "I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that came before it led up to it, and everything of importance to this country - at least up to 1940 - was a consequence of it. Even now there's an echo of the war, however faint, in almost everyone's life.",
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                        "text": "“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4 but the grand celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Republic. A country feeling its oats, flexing its muscles, vigorous and rich, cocksure and confident, has seen the impossible happen, the unthinkable become fact. Sitting Bull has spoiled their glorious Centennial, pissed on Custer's golden head, the head of a genuine Civil War hero, the head of someone who has recently been touted as a future President of the United States. Somehow a wedding and a funeral got booked for the same hour in the same church.”",
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                        "text": "“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of retaliation. It was the effect, in the rites of punishment, of a certain mechanism of power: of a power that not only did not hesitate to exert itself directly on bodies, but was exalted and strengthened by its visible manifestations; of a power that asserted itself as an armed power whose functions of maintaining order were not entirely unconnected with the functions of war; of a power that presented rules and obligations as personal bonds, a breach of which constituted an offence and called for vengeance; of a power for which disobedience was an act of hostility, the first sign of rebellion, which is not in principle different from civil war; of a power that had to demonstrate not why it enforced its laws, but who were its enemies, and what unleashing of force threatened them; of a power which, in the absence of continual supervision, sought a renewal of its effect in the spectacle of its individual manifestations; of a power that was recharged in the ritual display of its reality as 'super-power'.”",
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                        "text": "“The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her snow-white hair and with gnarled fingers tried tucking it under the black, lacy, silk nightcap that her great niece Annie had sewn for her. Each day, her clothes consisted of a long, white, embroidered nightgown, and a soft, warm, lavender sontag with the hair brooch secured upon her left shoulder. The few pleasures she had since she could no longer see were those of having mail or newspaper stories read to her by relatives who took turns caring for her. She could not tolerate people or activity. Food and drink were tasteless. Although the family made many attempts at a tray of concoctions for her each day, she had just quit eating. She remained closed in her bedroom in this dizzy age, propped in bed, eyes shut with her memories. “Who knew I would live this long?”",
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                        "text": "While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.",
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                        "text": "“[U]nless one is to yield to biological determinism and accept that the possession of black sin creates a unique black mentality and character, it is hard to see what living connection exists between American blacks today and their heterogeneous West African ancestors three centuries ago. And biological determinism--the theory that race determines mentality--is of course just another word for racism. Biological determinism is exactly the theory apologists for slavery used in the American South before the Civil War. It is bizarre to hear blacks invoking the same theory today.”",
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                        "text": "“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to me. I would never again look at a man without wondering what crimes he was capable of committing. That seemed important to know.”",
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                        "text": "Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side. We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America fought in the defense of slavery.",
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