War Quote by Jefferson Davis

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it…

— 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

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

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell…

— Robert E. Lee

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come…

— Jimmy Carter

We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

— Margaret Mitchell

“I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its ass.”

— T.J. Kirk

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low…

— Margaret Mitchell

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low…

— Margaret Mitchell

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

— William H. Seward

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and…

— Patrick Cleburne