Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority of whites didn't have any.
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
The Almighty has His own purposes.
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . .
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
. . . as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.
Now he belongs to the ages.
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
You want one civil war, brah?
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.