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You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

Conquer or be conquered.

Do you see those colors? Take them!

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

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

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

It was not war, it was murder.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

The authors of all our misfortune.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Slavery can never be abolished.

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.