The main problem with America today is the increasing scarcity of Americans. –Clyde Wilson
The motive of those who have protested against the extension of slavery has always been concern for the welfare of the white man, not an unnatural sympathy with the negro. –William H. Seward, Republican leader
Loyalty to party is treason to the South. –Congressman Lawrence M. Keitt of South Carolina, 1857
The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible –Abraham Lincoln, opposing secession after being elected with less than 40% of the vote
The French Revolution unfolded under the banner of a self-contradictory and unrealizable slogan, “liberty, equality, fraternity.” But in the life of society, liberty and equality are mutually exclusive, even hostile concepts. Liberty, by its very nature undermines social equality, and equality suppresses liberty—for how else could it be attained? –Solzhenitsyn
Clearly, today democratic sentiment in America is little more than a reflex of market imperatives. Americans possess neither the will to resist nor the independence of mind to see that we are now swimming with the Gadarene swine. –Jack Trotter
The establishment of a national currency and of this system [of national banks] appears to me all important. It is more important than the loss of a battle. In comparison with this, the fate of three million negroes in the southern States is utterly insignificant. I would see them slaves for life as their fathers were before them if we could only maintain nationality. –Sen. John Sherman of Ohio
Thus when secessionists protested in 1861 that they were acting to preserve traditional rights and values, they were correct. . . . The South’s concept of republicanism had not changed in three-quarters of a century. The North’s had. –James M. McPherson
Lee was the product of a locality and an authority that was two and a half times as old as the Union. –Bell I. Wiley
We mean to conquer [the southern people]—not merely to defeat, but to conquer, to SUBJUGATE them . . .when the rebellious traitors are overwhelmed in the field, and scattered like leaves before an angry wind, it must not be to return to peaceful and contented homes. They must find poverty at their firesides, and see privation in the anxious eyes of mothers and the rags of children. —New York Tribune
If only Longstreet had . . . . —O. Henry
