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Civil War Quotes

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before Picture Quote #1

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal Picture Quote #1

You don’t have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937) Picture Quote #1

I watched Ken Burns’ Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg Picture Quote #1

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating Picture Quote #1

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War Picture Quote #1

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I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War Picture Quote #1

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we’re going to get involved with Picture Quote #1

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control Picture Quote #1

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read Picture Quote #1

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany Picture Quote #1

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west Picture Quote #1

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Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate Picture Quote #1

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress Picture Quote #1

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they’re convalescing in a Civil War hospital Picture Quote #1

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition Picture Quote #1

Now that it’s officially summer, here’s my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields Picture Quote #1

Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War Picture Quote #1

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I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon Picture Quote #1

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful Picture Quote #1

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government Picture Quote #1

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff Picture Quote #1

When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front Picture Quote #1

The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we’re Mediterranean, and timing isn’t our forte Picture Quote #1

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And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War Picture Quote #1

[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died Picture Quote #1

A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could have been avoided if only Lincoln had known that little trick Picture Quote #1

On the last morning of Virginia’s bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea Picture Quote #1

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot Picture Quote #1

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live Picture Quote #1

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Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before (Civil War Quotes) Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (Civil War Quotes) You don’t have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937) (Civil War Quotes) I watched Ken Burns’ Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. (Civil War Quotes) I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating (Civil War Quotes) When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War (Civil War Quotes) I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War (Civil War Quotes) Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we’re going to get involved with. (Civil War Quotes) Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control. (Civil War Quotes) I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read. (Civil War Quotes) My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany. (Civil War Quotes) Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west. (Civil War Quotes) Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate. (Civil War Quotes) Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. (Civil War Quotes) I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they’re convalescing in a Civil War hospital. (Civil War Quotes) Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition. (Civil War Quotes) Now that it’s officially summer, here’s my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. (Civil War Quotes) Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War. (Civil War Quotes) I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon. (Civil War Quotes) In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful. (Civil War Quotes) In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. (Civil War Quotes) You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. (Civil War Quotes) When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front. (Civil War Quotes) The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we’re Mediterranean, and timing isn’t our forte. (Civil War Quotes) And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. (Civil War Quotes) [Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died. (Civil War Quotes) A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could have been avoided if only Lincoln had known that little trick. (Civil War Quotes) On the last morning of Virginia’s bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. (Civil War Quotes) Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. (Civil War Quotes) Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live (Civil War Quotes)

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