“I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.” Has BeensWarGovernmentLawCoursesFeltFieldsCitizensHonorBattleSoldierBe GoodPursuePreservesCivil WarAdviseUnwillingGood CitizenYour HonorMagnanimousGood Soldiers Author:Nathan Bedford Forrest
“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.” HomeGovernmentDiesBedShotsMurderTownsGuiltSoldierIllJewGrandmotherHolocaustJustificationPalestinianContinuingNaziMy GrandmotherExploitsIsraeliSlaughterGazaGentilesHome TownGerman SoldiersIsraeli Soldiers Author:Gerald Kaufman
“A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.” PeopleWarBodyGovernmentFormCertainNationsBehindsPrinciplesStandingIndependenceSoldierDenyConclusionSufficientRepublicSovereigntyAbrahamForts Author:Wendell Phillips
“The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.” GovernmentRacismSoldierIndianWrongedMisdeedsApaches Author:Geronimo
“I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.” BelieveGovernmentConscienceSoldierCriminalsSincerelyMy Soldier Author:Walter Model
“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.” MenHumansChildrenWarGovernmentWantedMotherHeavenLibertyHistoryWillingHolyShotsSlaveryUnionsDemocratSoldierEvery ManNakedBlockCivil WarLabourYellowFlagsSolitaryCorpsesAltarsFeverAmerican Civil WarLashesAuctionsYellow FeverBloodhounds Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.” WayHumansHas BeensIdeasGovernmentHumanityFightingForceJusticeHuman NatureSoldierTyrannySelfishnessOrganizedPriestsBigotryThunderstormFeudalism Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters