Top 1200 Civil War Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.

Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.

I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there's 120 and they've been inspired by the American exceptionalism.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most other Americans with the possible exception of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The first blacks in Congress and the first black Governor were all Republicans. It was Republicans who fought the Civil War over slavery and who introduced the Civil Rights legislation over the next hundred years.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.