Civil War Quotes - Page 2

• I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

  Emory Upton

  War, Lying, Battle

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• It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Hate, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Law, Government

  "Farewell address". May 9, 1865.

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• We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

  Allen West

  War, Struggle, Unions

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Summer, Military, Fighting

  Dispatch from Spotsylvania (Va.) Court House, 11 May 1864.

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• And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

  Dick Gregory

  Inspirational, Dance, War

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Trying, Answers

  Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)

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• Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

  John Lydon

  War, Things I Love, Fine Things

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• We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, War, Hippie

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

  Sarah Palin

  Beautiful, War, Thinking

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• Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Crazy, History, Drunk

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• If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Army, Mules, Ifs

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• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Children, War, Doctors

  Andrew Taylor Still (1897). “Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy”

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• I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christ, Poor, Salvation

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• General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

  John Brown Gordon

  War, Boys, Men

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• If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

  Belle Boyd

  Lying, War, Government

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.182

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• I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

  George Armstrong Custer

  War, Soldier, Enemy

  "The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian". Book by Ralph K. Andrist (p. 258), 2001.

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• I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

  Walt Whitman

  War, Sadness, Eye

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• I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, May, Platforms

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.218, Wildside Press LLC

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• I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Favors, Colonization

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Fields, Scene

  William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

  Jubal Early

  Military, War, Army

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• The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Smell, Southern

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• I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Real, War

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Law, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.40, Penguin

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