Civil War North Quotes

#1. The knowledge that God lives in us will destroy all the limitations in the mind of those who have the name of Christ, but yet are weak

Sunday Adelaja

#2. Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!

Kevis Hendrickson

#3. The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

H.L. Mencken

#4. No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#5. The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Richard M. Weaver

#6. Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

Roone Arledge

#7. While technically Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was the border state, a schizophrenic no-man's-land with the North at its door and the South in its heart.

Sarah Vowell

#8. Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

Howard Raiffa

#9. I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

Ger Duany

#10. Your question to me is about God, but boiled down to its essentials, it's not so different than most of the questions people ask me to answer. It says: This failed me and I want to do better next time. My answer will not be so different either: To do better you're going to have to try.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music ...

Lizz Wright

#12. In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

Karen Abbott

#13. Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals - and is intended to conceal - the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the peculiar institution.

Dinesh D'Souza

#14. The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

Eustace Mullins

#15. The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

G. Edward Griffin

#16. North was only a direction indicated by a compass
if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

Shelby Foote

#17. In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.

John Moody

#18. There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!
-Dr. Honma

Osamu Tezuka

#19. The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

David Icke

#20. Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Gianni Agnelli

#21. Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Nancy B. Brewer

#22. I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants ... and horseshit.

Zero Mostel

#23. If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.

Tory Nyhaug

#24. I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

James Spader