Civil War General

Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil, war and/or general:

    “The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.”
    —Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)

    “Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Your length in clay’s now competent,
    A long war disturbed your mind;”
    —John Webster (c. 1580–1638)

    “The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)