More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men. — Harold Bloom 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
“The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate… — Winston Churchill 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
I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“Wheelock Commandery 5, Texas, ceased to exist when its 55 members joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and all were subsequently killed.” — Steven L. Harrison 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
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
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
I've seen too many comments, too many stories from a fan, or first-time fans that have come to a race in years… — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“He immediately had Rawlins summon stretcher bearers, but was dismayed when they removed the Union officer and overlooked the Confederate private. “Take… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“I've heard of more ways to die in this war than I knew there were corpses. I've heard there isn't a battle… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
“These statues have a complex history. They were not erected to honor the Confederate dead following the war or even at the… — Jeffrey Tucker 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
“One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men.… — Carl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Atlanta, Georgia. Two parts Confederate racist to two parts Negro to one part something-that-doesn't-quiet-have-a-name-for-it-yet. Neither city nor country but some odd combination,… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“This was crazy. Celeste had merely said her relatives would love to have her stay with them, they had plenty of room.… — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“We have a historical chance. Imagine the power which Egypt, Iran, and Turkey have, are working in one organization. We have the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states'… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 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
