Virginia in The American Civil War/secession Timeline

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

    “If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
    —Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

    “Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
    —Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)