Civil war Quote by George Pickett

Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying.…

— George Pickett

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as…

— Edward Everett

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

— Abraham Lincoln

“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now…

— Charles Phillips

“Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, who so valiantly defended Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, was in command…

— Charles River Editors

“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it…

— Sarah Vowell

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg…

— Bruce Catton

A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They…

— W. H. Auden

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values —…

— Karl Jaspers

These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“There is no one as hypocritical as a man who massacred a tree in one place and cooled in the shadow of a tree…

— Mehmet Murat ildan