Quotes on Civil War

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

The world has never had a good definition_x000D_ of the word liberty

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

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.

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.