Switch to Facebook

It just seems easier to post my thoughts on Facebook instead of maintaining a separate blog. Please visit Civil War Markers on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Civil-War-Markers/134561649918046

Don

Forgiveness and reconciliation

“Only thank God men have done learned
how to forget quick what they ain't brave enough to try to cure. ..."

Willian Faulkner character fron the novel "The Hamlet"

http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-William-Faulkner/dp/0679736530

Quoted by Professor David Blight in lesson 26 of The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, Open Yale Courses

Civil War Quotes

"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"

Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.

More thought for today's political climate.

Civil War Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.


Abraham Lincoln

Open Yale Courses

This is a great way to learn about the Civil War. The courses are free.

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/civil-war-and-reconstruction/

Civil War Quotes

“Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.”



Ulysses S. Grant

Civil War Quotes

"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. "



Robert E. Lee

Civil War Quotes

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 258-259.

More advice for our new President.

Civil War Quotes

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

Stong words that I hope our new president will follow.
DRH

Civil War Quotes

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.


U. S. Grant

Civil War Quotes

"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."



Abraham Lincoln

"Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858)

Civil War Quotes

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Robert E. Lee

Too bad that today's politicians don't follow this.

Civil War Quotes

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Civil War Quotes

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Hum!!!

Civil War Quotes

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Stonewall Jackson

Civil War Quotes

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A great though for the end of the year!!!!!

Civil War Quotes

With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword...

Robert E. Lee

Civil War Quotes

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'."


Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

Civil War Quotes

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”

William Tecumseh Sherman

Civil War Quotes

It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it.


Robert E. Lee