Civil War Quotes - Page 20

• The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

  William James

  Country, War, Military

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• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Years, Long

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

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• You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

  Midge Ure

  Morning, War, Thinking

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• Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

  Mark Shields

  Country, War, Iraq

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• If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

  Alcee Hastings

  War, Past, Years

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• I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

  Ted Nugent

  War, Wonder, South

  "Ted Nugent Wonders If It Would Have Been Better If ‘The South Won The Civil War’" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, War, Order

  "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Essay by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Slave Owners, Different

  Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”

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• The world has never had a good definition
  of the word liberty

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liberty, World, Definitions

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

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• I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Patriotic, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Unions, Slave, Emancipation Proclamation

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

  James Monroe

  War, America, Long

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

  John Fund

  War, Slavery, Sin

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• If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Trust, Country, War

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• Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Country, War, Mean

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• To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  War, Men, Mankind

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• Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  War, Insecure, America

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• Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

  George Ayittey

  War, Groups, Excluded

  "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  Harri Holkeri

  War, Independent, Years

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• It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

  J. Maarten Troost

  War, College, Tea

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• Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

  Dizzy Reed

  War, Lines, Originals

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• You want one civil war, brah?

  Tom Brower

  War, Marriage Equality, Want

  "Hawaii House Advances Same-Sex Marriage Bill, Sets Final Vote For Friday" by Chad Blair and Nathan Eagle, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2013.

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• So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

  George Carlin

  Country, Sorry, Philosophy

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles
  If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Taken, Errors

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• Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  War, Catholic, Harmony

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