Quotes about Civil war

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If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell — Philip Henry Sheridan
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. — Oliver Cromwell.
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the — Abraham Lincoln
She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer, Carolina Rain
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-sto — Abraham Lincoln
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you — Walt Whitman, Drum Taps
In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery. — Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
War means fighting, and fighting means killing. — Nathan Bedford Forrest
Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism. — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. — Montesquieu, Persian Letters
This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the — George Packer
For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning you — Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza — George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civ — Christopher Hitchens
The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battle — Elisabeth Grace Foley, War Memorial
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indisso — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Then as Anna listened another sound began to rise within the first. It began as a low keening, like the wind in a bottle — Howard Bahr, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troo — Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy