Belle Boyd Quotes

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• A true woman always loves a real soldier.
• If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in…
• The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
• I only wanted to help my people.
• Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled…
• I hope that when I commence that oath, my tongue may cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I ever sign one line to…
• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel…
• I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
• Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
• Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at…
• What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
• My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all…
• Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.
• As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
• There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and…

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