290 Quotes About Civil-war

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

the better angels of our nature

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over