Civil War Commander

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

    “Colonel Shaw
    and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
    on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
    propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)

    “If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    “Every commander is alone.”
    —Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)