Nancy Dubuc Quotes

The ratification of the Constitution was a slugfest.

United Colonies

The Civil War still remains the crossroads of our being.

I went to the library and found lots of material about this time, about the Freedom March and what was going on down there in 1964.

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.'

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence.

When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...

Blood will have blood.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

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

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.