Contests Quote by Woodrow Wilson

The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and…

— Benjamin F. Grady

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

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor…

— John Coleman

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

— Ted Nugent

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin

“What was developing in the South was a coercive labor system, which although not slavery, was not free labor either. It depended on extralegal…

— Richard White

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than…

— Jim Webb

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war…

— Corey Stewart

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery…

— Angelina Grimke

“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery. But the…

— Mary Pope Osborne

[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin