Confederate Quotes
59 quotes by 49 authors
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
— Buffalo Bill
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
— David Strathairn
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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
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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
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More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.
— Harold Bloom
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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
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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
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I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.
— Howard Dean
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.
— Joy-Ann Reid
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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
Who Wrote These Confederate Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 59 Confederate Quotes, led by these top contributors: