Abraham Quote by Wendell Phillips

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make.…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

— Edmund Burke

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

— Ron Paul

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say…

— Jefferson Davis

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

— Smedley Butler

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

— Mao Zedong

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and…

— Lysander Spooner

In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your…

— Richard Cohen

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

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

— Simone Weil

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