Civil War Quotes - Page 25

• For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Citizens

  "Philippics". 2. 15. 37,

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• Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

  Abraham Cowley

  Hate, War, Gold

  Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

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• We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Mean, Civilization

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  Depression, War, Struggle

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, War, Civilization

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.2

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• What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

  Clara Barton

  Country, Father, War

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• We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Judgement, Cold

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• There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Meaningful, War, Civilization

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

  Henry L. Benning

  War, Thinking, Safety

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• I done told you twice already goddammit no!

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Done

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• We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Brother, Air, Land

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• The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Ocean, Mountain

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• I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Purpose, Command

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• Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Ku Klux Klan, League

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• Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

  Patrick Cleburne

  Education, Teacher, Giving Up

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• I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Fighting, Coffins

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• Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.52, Chartwell

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• It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, War, Yoga

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• There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Jail, African American

  "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.

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• In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

  Ishmael Beah

  War, Years, Two

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• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

  Ishmael Beah

  Country, Children, War

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  Wall, War, Nerves

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  War, Mean, Matter

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.294, A&C Black

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