Civil War Quotes - Page 11

• I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course. And I've talked to a lot of people about it. And what I've found from my talks are that the Iraqis want a unified country and that the Iraqi leadership is determined to thwart the efforts of the extremists and the radicals.

  George W. Bush

  Country, War, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means - and the numbers of failing states are increasing. This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man's land. After 9/11, George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Mean, Promise

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think Ebola is a great example of where the world really needs to come together. The three countries where this outbreak took place have had a lot of civil war, very weak health systems. And so, it did take a while for people to understand ....that eventually what we saw was a very unique Ebola epidemic. I think it is quite impressive what's being pulled together, and I think we will be able to get this under control.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Unique

  Source: www.politico.com

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• For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut, Berlin and Baghdad. And Cairo is a city that has a scar that was born after many decades of dictatorship - oppression shaped the people's lives, and forced people to grow up accompanied by fear. I belong to a generation that, whether we like it or not, was shaped by this fear of death or loosing the people you love, the threat of war, not allowed to be yourself, forced to be silent - as you watch ignorance occupying everything around you. And this is a deep scar.

  Tamer El Said

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's soul. You look at them and go, "Oh my gosh." And that doesn't happen with television. It's unique to photography. Photographs are unique in that they are a frame abstracted out of reality, out of, in this case, a civil war. A single event can carry so much weight. And that is extraordinary.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, War, Unique

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, People, Missing

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• 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.

  Martin Amis

  War, Rejection, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Political, Good Man

  American Heritage magazine, December 1955.

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• Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Progress

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• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Canada

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• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  Gail Collins

  War, Black And White, America

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

  Kevin Costner

  War, Cutting, White

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• If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

  Jefferson Davis

  Tombstone, Organization, Political

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• The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

  Umberto Eco

  War, United States, Needed

  "Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

  Marc Faber

  War, Zimbabwe, Europe

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• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Time, War, Patriotic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Tunes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Bad Ass

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

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• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, War, Individual

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

  Anne Hathaway

  Attitude, War, People

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

  Charles Inglis

  War, Hippie, Horror

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• People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like Twilight, don't buy a ticket.

  Anna Kendrick

  Fun, War, Twilight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Heart

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

  Leon Trotsky

  Freedom, Philosophy, Mean

  "When It Comes to Personal Transformation, Could the Ends Be the Means?" by Russell Bishop, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

  Andrew Young

  War, America, Slavery

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