290 Quotes About Civil-war

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

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.

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

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing....

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.