Civil war Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

— Jesmyn Ward

“Secretary Seward, who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State—a long-headed and shrewd politician—prophesied that the war would be over in ninety days; and young men…

— D.L. Moody

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

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of…

— Anonymous

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

[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

Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually…

— Pope John Paul II

The South is a region that history has happened to.

— Richard M. Weaver

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical…

— Barbara Tuchman

The South is the region that history has happened to.

— Richard M. Weaver

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

— Catherine Helen Spence