Confederate Army Quotes

#1. For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

Harper Lee

#2. In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

Chesty Puller

#3. An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could remain with her husband when he joined the Confederate Army. Amy continued to fight after he was killed, and she was wounded herself and taken prisoner.

Gail Collins

#4. In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

Karen Abbott

#5. A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

John Templeton

#6. Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.

James Longstreet

#7. Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

John S. Mosby

#8. At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.

Karen Abbott

#9. There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets.

Frederick Douglass

#10. It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

Margaret Mead

#11. Most girls want the right guy. They aren't looking for a one-time thing.

H.M. Ward

#12. There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

Dick Wolf

#13. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like

Daniel Gottlieb

#14. Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.

E. Nesbit

#15. I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

Phil Roe

#16. My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he's really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. He's very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work.

Spencer Grammer

#17. was something in the silence, aroma, and presence of the books that soothed an ache deep in her soul. A

A.W. Exley

#18. What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

Kirby Dick

#19. A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#20. Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

Fiona Shaw

#21. What good is an edge if you can't push someone over it?

Dannika Dark