Brianna Keilar Quotes

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

You know how absurd is the fiction put forward by our enemies in the Northern states that the great Civil War which raged between 1861 and 1865 would never have taken place but for Jefferson Davis and myself. Such mighty convulsions, which amount indeed to revolutions, are never the work of individuals, but of divided nations.

Every man that lowered our flag was a Democrat.... Every preacher that said slavery was a divine institution was a Democrat. Recollect it! Every man that shot a Union soldier was a Democrat. Every wound borne by you Union soldiers is a souvenir of a Democrat.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

The slave-owning South won the subsequent ideological war…the consensus of history was that the Civil War had little to do with slavery.

The South was right. Say it! Say it!

The Civil war made us a nation rather then an association of states.

Any understanding of this nation has to be based, and I mean really based, on an understanding of the Civil War. I believe that firmly. It defined us.

… the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina. It may probably arise through the slave question. … concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters.

I know that the Southern People prefer a Govt. of their own but as soon as it is demonstrated that there cannot be an independent Southern Confederacy, many then will yield obedience rather than lose their Estates.

Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.

It's the state of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. That is our heritage. It is what makes us Virginia.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.

The Civil War always moves me.