American Civil War Quotes - Page 5

• There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

  Simon Schama

  War, History, Civil War

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• You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.

  Philibert Orry

  War, Army, Men

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• We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Snakes, History

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• The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  War, Characteristics, Combination

  "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War". Book by Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008.

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• It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.

  Homer Bone

  Death, Country, War

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• What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Army, Blow

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• Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

  William C. Oates

  War, History, Unexpected

  Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books

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• I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, History, Devil

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• War is an option of difficulties.

  James Wolfe

  War, History, Difficulty

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• The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

  John Coleman

  War, Textiles, Wrecks

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• This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, History, Slavery

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• From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate question in its politics. The one that triggers rage and sorrow; the one that asks is the price of blood too dear? Or, if it is to stay true to its convictions, does America have no coice but to put its lives on the line?

  Simon Schama

  Father, War, Fighting

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• I find I like it too much.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, History, Too Much

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• We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, History, Sick

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• He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Strong, Horse, War

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• It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

  Michael Novak

  War, History, Support

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• I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.

  Gary Paulsen

  War, Book, Reading

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Horse, War, Men

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• One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

  Henry Adams

  War, Years, History

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

  George Meade

  War, Men, History

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• The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Enemy Of Progress, History

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• No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Years, Rome

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

  Wendell Phillips

  Fighting, Men, History

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• It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

  Henry Adams

  War, Fighting, Army

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• The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

  David Icke

  Cousin, War, Rothschild

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