If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.” — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“the Confederacy had been poisoned by more jealousies than a hundred high-bred gals could muster in competition for a single male.” — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy… — John Brough Copy Share Image
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and… — Calvin Johnson Copy Share Image
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed… — Burke Davis Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section,… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. — Tamara Feldman Copy Share Image
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Those who were die-hard supporters of the Confederacy, including many slaveholders, fled farther south to Texas, where they settled down to rebuild… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life,… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
“Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the… — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“Netherton was looking at the oversized bronze head of a bearded man, its neck having been crudely severed from whatever figure it… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
![“The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/645/john-stuart-mill-477_affair_the-triumph-of-the-confederacy-would-be_182321.jpg)