Civil war Quote by Robert E. Lee

“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits…

— Russell Freedman

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

— Winston Churchill

Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been emancipated.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent…

— Jefferson Davis

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

— Dalton Trumbo

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

I just love that Free the Slaves does such a great job of gathering communities, gathering people together, and giving them the information, arming…

— Virginia Williams

This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our…

— Jefferson Davis

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

— Wendell Phillips