North South Quotes

I never was an Abolitionist, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge fairly & honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North & South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

No solid South, no solid North, save when solid for the flag and the Union.

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.

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

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.

America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.