Quotes about war
war gingerbread earth
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do. Abraham Lincoln
war needs unbroken
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.
war civil-war hell
If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
war men despotism
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
war food shadow
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.
war lying sleep
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
war lasts faces
It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.
war father sea
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
war holes knows
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
war civil-war said
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
war civil-war
It's bad. It's damned bad.
war confused ducks
confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
war army half
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
war civil-war trouble
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
war civil-war green
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
war unfinished-work long
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.
war eight years
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free...
war struggle slavery
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
war thinking games
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
war people speech
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
war fighting men
I can't spare this man, he fights!
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.