Civil war Quote by Jefferson Davis

We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with…

— Arthur Fremantle

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of…

— Richard M. Weaver

“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

“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain…

— George Orwell

“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief…

— James Baldwin

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what war demands…

— William James

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

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte