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Civil War Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.…
- Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments…
- Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark…
- ...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets,…
- There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets…
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- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood
- You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of… — George H. W. Bush
- Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua… — Stephen Ambrose
- Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who… — Unknown Author
- But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil… — Humphry Davy
- But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama
- On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of… — Patricia Cornwell
- During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and… — Abraham Lincoln
- I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war. — John Garamendi
- At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust… — Barry McCaffrey
- The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken
- You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a… — Karl Marx