Confederate Quotes

59 quotes by 49 authors

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. — Buffalo Bill
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and… — Thomas Jefferson
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today… — John Templeton
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I… — Ulysses S. Grant
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples… — Mark Twain
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both. — David Strathairn
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal… — Jefferson Davis
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a… — Jim Bakker
More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men. — Harold Bloom
Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly… — Clark Gable
On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the… — Vivien Leigh
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. — Howard Dean
I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to… — Howard Dean
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army… — John Coleman
There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little… — Calvin Johnson
I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States. — J. E. B. Stuart
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. — John Shelton Reed
There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement. — Joy-Ann Reid
Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself. — John S. Mosby

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