Civil War Hero

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

    “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)

    “I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “No more shall the war cry sever,
    Or the winding rivers be red:
    They banish our anger forever
    When they laurel the graves of our dead!
    Under the sod and the dew,
    Waiting the Judgment Day:—
    Love and tears for the Blue;
    Tears and love for the Gray.”
    —Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)

    “I’m a hero wid coward’s legs, I’m a hero from the waist up.”
    —Spike Milligan (b. 1918)