Civil War Quotes - Page 7

• It will be all right if it turns out all right.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Turns, Ifs

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• For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down upon us. Their bearing was magnificent. They came forward with a rush, and how our men did yell, 'Come on, Johnny, come on!'

  Rufus Dawes

  War, Army, Men

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• Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to apologize in general from time to time and let people know he meant well and then to shove off and hope for the best. He apologized and departed, curls ajiggle.

  Michael Shaara

  War, People, Departed

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.458, Ballantine Books

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• General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.

  George Meade

  War, Higher Ground, Mountain

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• The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Men, Enemy

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• Well, it made you famous.

  John S. Mosby

  War, Made, Wells

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• Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Party, Acceptance

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Tasks, Lasts, Causes

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

  Jim Rohn

  War, Decision, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 22, 2017

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• You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Blood

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Food, Shadow

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• But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

  Simon Schama

  War, Gone, Violence

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• Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Errors, Rivers

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• War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Military, War, Mean

  "May I Quote You, General Forrest?". Book by Randall Bedwell, 1996.

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• If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Storm, May

  Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411

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• If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Lying, Sleep

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

  Ken Burns

  Country, War, America

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• The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.

  George B. McClellan

  War, Intelligent, Government

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Mistake

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

  James L. Petigru

  War, Insane, Republic

  "Too large to be an asylum". Post and Courier, February 13, 2010.

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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  Kate Adie

  War, Hair, Complaining

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• There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.

  Steve Erickson

  War, White, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  War, Important, Needs

  Source: www.voanews.com

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