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679 Civil War quotes by 327 unique authors

You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about black people, black… — Chris Rock
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader
Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have… — Bill Maher
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United… — Chelsea Manning
Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil. — George W. Bush
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left. — Ian Paisley
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not… — Corrine Brown
I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the… — Larry Niven
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today.… — Paul Watson
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku… — Christopher Dodd
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP… — Binyavanga Wainaina
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens… — Ronald Reagan
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened,… — W. Cleon Skousen
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who… — Susan Jacoby
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to… — Megan Abbott
Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion. — Mick Jagger
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because… — Abraham Lincoln
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon… — Stephen A. Douglas
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality… — Abraham Lincoln
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think… — John Brown
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a… — George William Curtis
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is… — Horace Greeley

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