Democracy Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm, they purified…

— Frank E. Vandiver

“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day…

— Jon Krakauer

“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the…

— James L. Stokesbury

The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and…

— Benjamin F. Grady

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“(Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington…

— Tom Reiss

“the great advantage the South possessed over the North at the beginning of the rebellion. They had from thirty to forty per cent. of…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they had to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than…

— Jim Webb

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky