"I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or in defeat...... I believe the North is about to wage a brutal
and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of
government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are
about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and inaugurate a servile insurrection, murder our men and dishonor
our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone."
~~Major General
Patrick Cleburne C.S.A.
"... every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation
before it is too late. We can give but a faint idea when we say it means the loss of all we now hold most sacred ...
personal property, lands, homesteads, liberty, justice, safety, pride, manhood. It means that the history of this
heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will
learn from Northern school books their version of the War, will be impressed by all influences of history and education to
regard our gallant dead as traitors, our maimed veterans as fit objects for their derision, it means the crushing of Southern
manhood ... to establish sectional superiority and a more centralised form of government, and to deprive us of our rights
and liberties."
Gen. Pat Cleburne C.S.A. ...
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"The Principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself,
though it may be at another time and in another form."
President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
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"Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make
of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these
results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand."
General Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas
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"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.
Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history.
Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."
Milan Kundera
