Civil war Quote by Herbert Asbury

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

“True, duels were fought by convention at dawn in isolated locations to ensure the privacy of the gentlemen involved. But were they fought behind…

— Amor Towles

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”

— James M. McPherson

“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes…

— Nadeem Aslam

“All war is civil war, for it is always man against man, spilling his own blood, tearing out his own entrails.”

— Fenelon Bonavides Neto

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally.…

— Daniel Fried

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put…

— Al Sharpton

“...he was not so much a human as a civil war.”

— H.G. Wells

“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…

— Ralph Ellison

“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends”

— Johnny Flora

“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his readiness to…

— John Lewis

“Quite often, people inaccurately comment about the villains of the South and the heroes of the North. Such statements cause bitter debates. Thus, it…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw