Civil war Quote by Charles Inglis

“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the army’s senior…

— Dennis Byrne

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

— Fred Kaplan

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a…

— Henry Knox

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what…

— H. L. Mencken

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

War is an admission of failure

— K.J. Parker

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

— Tony Benn

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before…

— Ulysses S. Grant

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

— Jacques Chirac

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political…

— Jefferson Davis

“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.”

— Daniel Hannan