Civil War Quotes - Page 37

• I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

  Philip Sheridan

  War, Taken, History

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• I find I like it too much.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, History, Too Much

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• There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

  Philibert Orry

  War, History, Subjects

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• You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.

  Philibert Orry

  War, Army, Men

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• We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Snakes, History

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• Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, History

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• I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.

  Philibert Orry

  War, History, Blind

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• Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He might, however, neutralize Elizabth by supporting her internal Catholic enemies, even provoking civil war.

  Peter Padfield

  War, Struggle, Catholic

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.

  Kim Novak

  War, Thinking, Tree

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• I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

  William R. Ferris

  War, Thinking, Ties

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

  William R. Ferris

  War, Mean, White

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.

  Ali Banisadr

  Letting Go, War, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!

  Sean Hannity

  War, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Fighting, Years

  Conservative Political Action Conference, www.esquire.com. 2011.

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• Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, War, Loss

  "Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2009.

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• When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, Military

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  War, Tombs

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• [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

  Fanny Kemble

  Spring, War, Roots

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• Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

  Ouida

  Religious, War, Soul And Body

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• Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

  Blaise Pascal

  War, Evil, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Gun, Sea

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• the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Brother, War

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.674, Penguin

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• One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

  Gary Miller

  Horse, War, Army

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• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

  Waylon Jennings

  War, White, Guy

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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