i am doing a report and need a good quote
2006-12-06 03:01:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"It was not war, it was murder."
-Major General D.H. Hill, CSA, about Mavern Hill, July 1, 1862
"No tongue can tell, no mind conceive, no pen portray the horrible sights I witnessed this morning."
-Captain John Taggert, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves, Sept. 17, 1862
"It is well war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."
-General Robert E. Lee, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia at Fredricksburg.
Union General William T. Sherman said this shortly before beginning his brutal March to the Sea
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over
2006-12-06 03:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by erin7 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"
- Union General William T. Sherman said this shortly before beginning his brutal March to the Sea
"It is well that war is so terrible--we should grow too fond of it"
- Robert E. Lee gave this observation while watching thousands of Union soldiers sent to the slaughter at Fredericksburg
2006-12-06 09:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by Karin C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"War necessarily brings with it some virtues, and great and heroic virtues, too....What horrid creatures we men are, that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another." -John Adams
"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us." - Abraham Lincoln
"In our Country...one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out." -Sherman
Here's a link with a ton of quotes which will be helpful
2006-12-06 03:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by Melli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lynch that Ni**er! The South
Just kidding.
"There is more to winning a war than rest. There's character."
General Robert Gould commander of the first all black regiment of the civil war.
2006-12-06 03:13:08 · answer #4 · answered by Dah veed 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Union General John Sedgwick spoke these words just moments before being shot dead by a confederate sniper at Spotsylvania
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
A Federal veteran so instructed new recruits in musket drill
"It's just like shooting squirrels, only these squirrels have guns"
2006-12-06 03:12:46 · answer #5 · answered by Crash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'I would rather be ignominiously dismissed, and suffer anything, than knowingly and wilfully have thousands of brave men slaughtered for nothing'.
Union General George Meade, after Mine Run (30.11.63)
Not one of the most famous, but the most telling about the differences between him and Grant.
'It was not war, it was murder'
Confederate General Evander Law, after Cold Harbor (3.6.64)
2006-12-06 08:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by Diocletian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Scarlett Ohara
2006-12-06 03:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abraham Lincoln after a night of heavy drinking. "I did what?"
2006-12-06 03:14:34 · answer #8 · answered by Mat 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋