Quotes about war
war fighting men
I can't spare this man, he fights! Abraham Lincoln
war civil-war blair
He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
war civil-war lord
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
war struggle men
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
war long gettysburg
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
war eye men
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation...
war fighting unions
You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.
war civil-war doe
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
war law needs
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
war thinking emancipation-proclamation
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
war people united-states
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
war brave soldier
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
war favors colonization
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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'.
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.