Civil War Quotes - Page 26

• The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

  Dennis Prager

  War, Europe, States

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• If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Country, Military

  "Kissinger: Victory in Iraq No Longer Possible". BBC interview, edition.cnn.com. November 19, 2006.

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• Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, War, Fate

  Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, May 1, 1833.

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Hands, Goes On

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Chris Hayes Compares Climate Change To The Struggle To End Slavery". Now with Alex Wagner, www.newsbusters.org. October 19, 2012.

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• Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.

  Ron Paul

  War, Mean, America

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• I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

  Dennis C. Blair

  War, Thinking, Chinese

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• [S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, War, Fighting

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• In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

  Barack Obama

  War, Lying, Heart

  "President Obama Ends American Combat Mission in Iraq, Looks Ahead to Afghanistan". 'Special Report With Bret Baier' with Steve Hayes, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthammer, www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2010.

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• The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Real, War

  Al-Ahram Weekly interview, 2001.

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• The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.

  Walter Millis

  Strong, War, Character

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• There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’

  Barney Frank

  War, Party, Years

  "Barney Frank tackles gay marriage, defense spending in Portland speech" by Seth Koenig, bangordailynews.com. June 10, 2012.

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• Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

  Will Ferrell

  Anchorman, War, Believe

  "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

  Nicholas Sparks

  War, People, South

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.

  Nicholas Sparks

  War, People, Historical

  Source: collider.com

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• It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

  Lauren Ambrose

  Dream, Horse, War

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• From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

  Alan Keyes

  War, Hero, Liberty

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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• Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Moving, Fate

  "Egypt approaching civil war: Putin". www.dailystar.com.lb. July 7, 2013.

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• No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Years, Rome

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

  Anthony Zinni

  War, Government, Years

  "The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose" by Anthony Zinni and Tony Koltz, p. 227-228, March, 2006.

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• I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!

  Ransom Riggs

  Baby, Hurt, Fun

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• I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

  Charlton Heston

  Country, War, Believe

  "Winning the Cultural War: A Challenge from a Friend". Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum, www.khouse.org. July 01, 1999.

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• When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

  Lisa Kristine

  War, Past, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Oct 16, 2013

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• The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Powerful, War

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