Civil War Quotes - Page 23

• Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Soldier, Alabama

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• Slavery can never be abolished.

  James Henry Hammond

  War, Slavery

  James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.13

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• If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, Europe And America

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• Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

  Sam Davis

  War, Men, Thinking

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• Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

  William Loughton Smith

  War, Roots, Southern

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• I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.

  Andrew Johnson

  War, Believe, Southern

  Andrew Johnson (1860). “The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States ... December 18 and 19, 1860”

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• God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Husband, War, Heart

  Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903). “The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston”

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• I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

  Robert E. Lee

  Father, War, Fall

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.45, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Pride, Men

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.757, Library of Alexandria

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• Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.

  Charles Fessenden Morse

  War, Rights, Rebel

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• I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Favors, Tariffs

  "Obama's Challenge: What Would Lincoln Do?" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2009.

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• The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, White Man

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• Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

  Edward A. Pollard

  War, Blood, Ink

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• Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  War, Weak, Firm

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• What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.84, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, May, Revolutionary

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.113

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• I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Two, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.363

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• ...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

  John Hunt Morgan

  War, Giving, Doubt

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• But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Two

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• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God's decree, work out her own independence.

  Belle Boyd

  War, Believe, Fire

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• Their object is disunion.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Objects

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.119

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• Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.

  George Mason

  New York, War, Boston

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• We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, War, Generations

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.432, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Heart

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• Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

  George B. McClellan

  War, Home, Paper

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