Disposition Quote by Henry Walter Bates

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

— Dean Koontz

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to…

— James McBride

Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the…

— James I. Robertson, Jr

... 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

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the…

— Robert Toombs

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

“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

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land.…

— Harriet Martineau

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest…

— Anonymous

In the mid 19th century, it had taken a generation of political rhetoric to induce southern soldiers to fight for the interests of a…

— Heather Cox Richardson

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their…

— Woodrow Wilson