Secession In Civil War Quotes & Sayings

A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters," a term applied to men who openly advocated secession rather than finding accomodation with the Union in the summer and fall of 1860. — Clint Johnson

The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person's profit can be achieved at the expense of many. — Rocco Leonard Martino

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia ... could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide. — Abraham Lincoln

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that! — Thomas Carlyle

It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects — Elf Sternberg

Young men preen. Old men scheme. — Mason Cooley

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan. — Joyce Meyer

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. — Winston S. Churchill

Robert T. Lincoln, the president's eldest son, who won fame as the "Prince of Rails" during the secession winter, was the only one of his children to live to maturity. He became U.S. secretary of war, minister to Great Britain, and president of the Pullman Company following brief service on General Grant's staff at the end of the Civil War. Though frequently mentioned as a Republican candidate for president, Robert shunned electoral politics. He later brought his mother to trial in a successful effort to have her committed for insanity. Robert died an extremely wealthy man at age eighty-four in 1926. — Harold Holzer

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution. — Clint Johnson

Sometimes the smallest victories in life are more rewarding than the greatest milestones. — Katie Kacvinsky

Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat. — Irvin S. Cobb

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart. — Spike Milligan

Knowledge must be fixed in some way if it is to be preserved," said the sheikh. "That's why the Quran isn't meant to be altered. There were other prophets sent to other peoples, but because their books were altered, their knowledge was lost. — G. Willow Wilson

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to. — Tim Curry

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect. — Dalai Lama

The only way to make the Civil War noble is to make slavery the cause. It's a tough trick, though, that can only be accomplished by tying war and secession into a single indivisible lump. But it's only a trick. War and secession are not the same, and the cause of one is not automatically the cause of the other. — Mark David Ledbetter