Aggressors Quote by Abraham Lincoln

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you……

— Abraham Lincoln

“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the…

— Robert Penn Warren

“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to remember with…

— Frederick Douglass

“I am passionately interested in how my Country works, and if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America,…

— Ken Burns

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

— Roma Tearne

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

— Khalil Gibran

What’s so civil about war anyway?

— Axl Rose

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”

— James M. McPherson

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?”

— Elizabeth Fitch

“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends”

— Johnny Flora