Civil War Fought

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

    “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)

    “Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)

    “Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    “Hail, Columbia! happy land!
    Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
    Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
    Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
    And when the storm of war was gone,
    Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
    Let independence be our boast,
    Ever mindful what it cost;”
    —Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842)