American history Quote 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…

— G. Edward Griffin

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

— Eustace Mullins

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

— Barack Obama

How is it possible to have a civil war?

— George Carlin

[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin

I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes, most of…

— Christine Jennings

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

— Frank Knight

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass…

— Winston Churchill

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

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

— Ron Paul