1. The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.-Drew Gilpin Faust
2. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.-Anthony Lewis
3. To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.-Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
4. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.-Abraham Lincoln
5. There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.-Anthony H. Cordesman
6. All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.-Francois Fenelon
7. A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.-Robert E. Lee
8. The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things… It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.-Shelby Foote
9. Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.-Alphonse De Lamartine
10. War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.-Abraham Lincoln
11. You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.-T Bone Burnett
12. In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.-Ulysses S. Grant
13. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.-William Tecumseh Sherman
14. Causes of Civil War are also, that the wealth of the nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be soldiers.-William Petty
15. Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards… Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.-Alexander H Stephens
16. Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.-Jefferson Davis
17. War means fighting, and fighting means killing.-Nathan Bedford Forrest
18. That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.-Nuruddin Farah
19. I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.-Montesquieu
20. I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.-John Brown
21. Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep – not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.-Nick Turse
22. We’ll fight them, sir, ’til hell freezes over, and then, sir, we will fight them on the ice.-Shelby Foote
23. The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.-James Monroe
24. The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.-Donald McCaig
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