Top 41 Boykin Quotes
#1. Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.
John F. Kerry
#2. [On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.
Nina Totenberg
#3. General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.
Donald Rumsfeld
#5. They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.
William G. Boykin
#6. Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#10. Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.
Kim Boykin
#11. You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
William G. Boykin
#13. The Jews are the problem. The Jews are the cause of all the problems in the world.
William G. Boykin
#17. I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with their tariff, get the money there is in it.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#18. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.
William G. Boykin
#19. George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.
William G. Boykin
#20. Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#22. Well, they did a damn good job; there's no way I'll
Kim Boykin
#23. I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#24. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#26. Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.
William G. Boykin
#27. Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#28. You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.
Kim Boykin
#29. We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#30. There is no slave, after all, like a wife ... Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#31. Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#33. Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#34. Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.
William G. Boykin
#36. A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#37. We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.
William G. Boykin
#38. Warrior actions are derived from the warrior soul. The best know it and nurture it. And once you have it, it never leaves. The warrior soul does not weaken. Long after the body has broken down, the soul stands tall.
William G. Boykin
#39. To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#40. I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#41. We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate ... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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