Civil war Quote by Ron Paul

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery…

— Paul Watson

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and…

— David Swanson

“Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing. We lost too…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.

— Gavin Esler

In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual,…

— Richard J. Maybury

“[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.”

— Pat Buchanan

“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

Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an…

— Ron Paul

“Slavery happened. That flag stands for segregation. We have monuments to Civil War generals and slave owners, as well as preserved plantations. But we…

— Trae Crowder

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

— Abraham Lincoln

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could…

— Abraham Lincoln