Civil war Quote by Jefferson Davis

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and…

— Belle Boyd

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any…

— Andrew Johnson

“Southerners have a lot to be proud of. We have survived, and we have overcome. Southern women, especially, have learned to be proud of…

— Deborah Ford

“Southern motherfucking democratic-republicans”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have…

— Newt Gingrich

Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes.…

— George Washington

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

— Larry Elder

“ Foreword As a true blue Southern girl I have often wondered…if preppies could have their own handbook…why not us? And now at last,…

— Deborah Ford

Through time and dedication, we will make it okay to be a proud Democrat in the South once again.

— Ronnie Musgrove

Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises…

— George Packer

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and…

— Carl Sandburg