The Civil War Quotes

“blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia... could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner   The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent. In the early nineteenth century, the two dominant political parties were the Whigs, who were anti slavery, favored strong central government, and were principally represented in the north and on the western frontier, and the Democrats, who were largely pro slavery, favored popular sovereignty and the rights of states to defy the rule of the federal government, and were predominantly represented by southerners.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin in serial form in newspapers, beginning in June of 1851.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“Cornerstone Speech”,”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“physical, philosophical, and moral”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. But what else have you learned about the Civil War since you left school? There are a lot of popular myths and misconceptions about the Civil War that get printed in books or in Internet blog posts and lists by careless writers repeating hearsay”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“Meanwhile, the issue of whether Kansas would be admitted to the union as a slave or free state was to be decided by popular sovereignty—in other words, by the votes of those settlers who lived in Kansas.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery were typical for most anti-slavery northerners of his era.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“There is also the fact that the Civil War changed the nation in a number of ways, many of which still have a direct impact on the society that Americans live in today.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States

“In fact, the last known veteran of the Civil War didn’t die until 1965—so if you were born before that year, it is possible that you yourself have met someone who wore the Union blue or Confederate grey in your lifetime.”
― Lance T. Stewart, The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States