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Civil War Quotes by G. Edward Griffin
- The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added…
- In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government…
- In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure…
- American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this…
- The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
- During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were…
- Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the…
- The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker…
- Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in…
- If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the…
- [...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an…
- There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the…
More Civil War Quotes
- 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