Civil War Quotes - Page 10

• I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, War, Half

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

  Simon Newcomb

  War, Taken, Rude

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

  Jonah Goldberg

  New York, War, America

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• We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

  Bobby Riggs

  War, Alive, Want

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• This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Ignorance, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, War, Mind

  William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Perspective, Humanity

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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

  William J. Brennan

  Sex, War, Book

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, People, Liberty

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Equal, Every Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.505, Wildside Press LLC

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• The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Achievement, Peaceful

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

  James Spader

  War, Mean, Thinking

  "James Spader, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On How The Film Can Guide Barack Obama" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2012.

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Politics, Gettysburg

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Country, War, Lying

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Doe

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

  Ali Khamenei

  War, Israel, United States

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• The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.

  Dumas Malone

  War, Government, Church

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• The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Thinking, Sea

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Mar 25, 2010

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• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  Jay Rockefeller

  War, Tyrants, Iraq

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

  Jon Voight

  Country, Real, War

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• Yes, the rise in corporate power had roots in the gearing up for the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig, a supporter of government aid to expanding industry - to "internal improvements" that supported the growth of business. He was an early capitalist, not one who wanted to preserve some rural paradise.

  William Lee Miller

  War, Growth, Improvement

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Let's put an end to this European civil war, the existence of which we don't want to admit, and stop constantly looking at whether we are better than our neighboring country at this or the other thing. We have to be open to new things, and that includes things that have been taboo until now: France still insists that the treaties cannot be changed. Germany doesn't want any financial transfers. We have to leave these old ways of thinking behind.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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