Best 244 quotes in «civil war quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city in 2012.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

Slavery can never be abolished.

The authors of all our misfortune.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

There's the devil to pay.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.