Top 1200 Civil War Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

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

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

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it's been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives - that's how strongly they felt about it. And it's not going to go away in a century.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

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

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reenactments - grandiose plays enacted by over weight history buffs and war enthusiasts alike.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.