"If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it."
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"Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears."
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"The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be."
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"Every man has a right to be equal with every other man."
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"Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over"
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"It's bad. It's damned bad."
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"I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses."
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"I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it."
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"He has got the slows, Mr. Blair."
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"The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die."
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"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."
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"Civil War was recorded by the original line-up"
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"Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing."
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"A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war."
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