The Confederate American Pride Quotations Page
"Every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns, and battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles." -- General Robert E. Lee
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Quotations
"Yes, they [the Washington Empire] fear us because history and timing (this time around) is on our side, not
theirs. They know it and we know it. The Constitutional right of secession and Southern independence in a 21st
century world filled with secession and independence movements all around the globe puts the fear of God into
our enemies in Washington and New York. Our success means the end of their rule, domination, control and gravy
train of high federal taxes paid for by each one of us. This is why, 'that Rebel Flag' and our movement are
hated so much. This is why so many lies and so much irresponsible reporting goes on about the defenders of
Southern heritage. This is why the 'Lebanese' student in Texas was made a scapegoat and object of scorn by
school officials and therefore creating the conditions for an unprovoked attack by students for the hate crime
of having checked a book out of the school library for a report with a picture of Robert E. Lee and the
Confederate Battle Flag in his possession."
"Governor, if I had foreseen the use these people desired to make of their victory, there would have been no
surrender at Appomattox, no, sir, not by me. Had I seen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to
die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand."
"We could have pursued no other course without dishonor. And sad as the results have been, if it had all to
be done again, we should be compelled to act in precisely the same manner."
"Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming
against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the
future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for."
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly
admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty,
dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he
delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?"
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in
another form."
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government
instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves. It is exactly what in every State exists in some
form or other. It is just that kind of control which is extended in every northern State over its convicts, its
lunatics, its minors, its apprentices. It is but a form of civil government for those who by their nature are
not fit to govern themselves. We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the
Creator, and from the cradle to the grave, our Government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority."
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our
inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was
to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it
all over again.''
''...the contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged
arena.''
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in
another form."
"Duty is ours; consequences are God's."
"If I ever disown, repudiate, or apologise for the Cause for which Lee fought and Jackson died, let the
lightnings of Heaven rend me, and the scorn of all good men and true women be my portion. Sun, moon, and stars,
all fall on me when I cease to love the Confederacy. 'Tis the Cause, not the fate of the Cause, that is
glorious!"
"Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it."
"That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or abolish it, and to institute New Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical."
"My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But a
moment's reflection would convince me, that whatever of high hope(as I think there is) there may be in this, in
the long run, it's sudden execution is impossible. What then? Free them, and keep them among us as underlings?
Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? I think I would not hold one in slavery, at any rate, yet
the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people on. What then? Free them, and make them politically and
socially our equals? MY own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the
great mass of white people will not...A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely
disregarded."
"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office..."
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where
it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
"I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District [of Columbia]..."
"I will say, then, that I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and
political equality of the white and black races ... I am in favor of having the superior position assigned to
the white race."
"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission, and offer my sword to the other
side."
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing
this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit
it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible
master."
"I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government
needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command.
Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I
will risk the dictatorship."
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