Civil war Quote by Alexander H. Stephens Download Open image “The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.” — Alexander H. Stephens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war Curse Free people Freedom People War
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever. — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens 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 subverted, and… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the… — Alexander H. Stephens 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 that the… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. Then he… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
![“It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good…” quote by Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ef/theodore-roosevelt-218_accomplished_it-the-civil-war-was-a-heroic-struggle-a_1292459.jpg)
