This collection holds 412 civil war quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are David Farragut, Stonewall Jackson and Andrew Jackson.

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Conquer or be conquered.

Press on, press on, men.

Their object is disunion.

There's the devil to pay.

Well, it made you famous.

It's bad. It's damned bad.

Teach him to deny himself.

Now he belongs to the ages.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

**** it, holler them across.

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

You want one civil war, brah?

It was not war, it was murder.

The Civil War always moves me.

Slavery can never be abolished.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Do you see those colors? Take them!

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

I was terrified watching 'Civil War' for the first time.

We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.

Our crisis of the house divided was a Christian civil war.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

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