Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent,… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners,… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up… — Bathsua Makin 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
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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