Civil War Quotes - Page 21

• The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, War, Party

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

  Henry Knox

  War, Failure, Done

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• As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eye, President

  Attributed reply to the South Carolina Commissioners.

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• So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Women, Book

  Quoted in McClure's Magazine, Apr. 1911.

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• Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

  Audie Murphy

  War, Pride, Blood

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• If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

  Joseph Story

  War, Constitution, States

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• If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Unions, Association

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• States Rights died at Appomattox.

  Salmon P. Chase

  War, Rights, States

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• If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Years, Cost

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• ...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

  Francis Wilkinson Pickens

  War, Safety, Honor

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• I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Humanity, Usage

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• ...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Done, Justify

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• The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'

  Arthur Fremantle

  War, Thinking, Confederate

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• Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Ohio, Glory

  Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.751, Madison & Adams Press

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• ...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

  Rita Mae Brown

  War, White, People

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• If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

  James Longstreet

  War, Men, Enough

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• Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward!

  John F. Reynolds

  War, Men, Woods

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• There's the devil to pay.

  John F. Reynolds

  War, Devil, Pay

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• As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

  Jubal Early

  War, Heart, Hands

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• Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

  John Bell Hood

  War, Gun, Shells

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• Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

  P. G. T. Beauregard

  War, Gentleman, Tomorrow

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• As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  War, Hero, Gun

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• This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

  James Longstreet

  War, Fighting, Dies

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• In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

  Cadmus M. Wilcox

  War, Hell, Glory

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• Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

  Maxcy Gregg

  War, Eye, Texas

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