Quotes about war
war unions way
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'. Abraham Lincoln
war independence unions
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
war views law
I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
war law unions
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
war unions pilots
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
war hate lips
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
war government hands
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
war alcohol ulyssess-grant
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
war military eye
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
war way has-beens
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
war thinking administration
I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.
war party slavery
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
war party purpose
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
war wish slavery
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
war uniting violence
[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
war loss fighting
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
war duration terrible
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
war people lines
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
war ambitious doe
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
war light honor
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
war may platforms
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
war writing thinking
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. Edward Said
war israel firsts
The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.
warrior self people
In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people, by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.
war reality government
The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight against foreign nations, against people we don't like, against political groups, radicals, and extremists whose ideas we may not agree with, and could be repulsive or even violent - if we let that happen without public buy-in, we won't have any seat at the table of government to decide whether or not it's appropriate for these officials to drag us into some kind of war activity that we don't want, but we weren't aware of at the time. Edward Snowden
warfare needs campaigns
We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.
war eye nsa
The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.
war giving spy
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.
war moving greatness
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned. Bruce Catton
war struggle rights
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.
war history southern
The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.
war history casualties
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
war history soldier
Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.