Civil War Quotes - Page 18

• Teach him to deny himself.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Deny, Teach

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• I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

  Philip Sheridan

  War, Gun, Railroads

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• The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Trouble, Headquarters

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confused, War, Ducks

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Freedom, Father, War

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• Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Home, Men

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• It's bad. It's damned bad.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War

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• I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Said

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• I can make men follow me to hell.

  Philip Kearny

  War, Men, Hell

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• There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, Sides

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• With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, War, Responsibility

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.234, Wildside Press LLC

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• Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Had Enough, Shows

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• Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Praying, Excuse

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• Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

  William Nelson

  War, Wish, Clergymen

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• General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

  John S. Mosby

  War, Dresses, Get Up

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• The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Father, War, Sea

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.291, Fordham Univ Press

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• General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

  James Longstreet

  War, Soldier, Unions

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• I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

  James Longstreet

  War, Want, Succeed

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• Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

  John Pope

  War, Shame, Glory

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• Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

  George B. McClellan

  War, Wells

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• I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

  John M. Corse

  War, Ears, Able

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• It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Lasts, Faces

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• Now he belongs to the ages.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  War, Age

  Quoted in Century Illustrated Magazine, Jan. 1890

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• War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Duration, Terrible

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Hell, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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