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| "Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth,in the hope that it may find a place in history and decend 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." -Robert E.Lee- |
| "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." Robert E. Lee |
| "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; whenever it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. Learned Hand - 1944 |
| "It is stated in books and papers that Southern children read and study that all the blood shedding and destruction of property of that conflict was because the South rebelled without cause against the best government the world ever saw; that although Southern soldiers were heroes in the field, skillfully massed and led, they and their leaders were rebels and traitors who fought to overthrow the Union, and to preserve human slavery, and that their defeat was necessary for free government and the welfare of the human family. "As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the charge, and denounce it as a calumny. We were not rebels; we did not fight to perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes." Richard Henry Lee, Confederate Colonel |
| "Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past." Joseph Stalin |
| NOTE Stalin means that what happend in the past determans what the futuere is, and whoever is in power in present controls what is said about the past. |
| In saving the Union, I have destroyed the republic. Before me I have the Confederacy which I loath. But behind me I have the bankers which a fear." Abraham Lincoln |
| "What then will become of my tariff?" Abraham Lincoln to the a Virginia compromise delegation, March 1861 |
| "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." Abraham Lincoln, January 12, 1848, speaking in Congress |
| So wich way is it Abe? |
| "The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so." Alex de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835 |
| A legitimate union of states "depends for its continuance on the free consent and will of the Sovereign people of each state," and " when that consent and will is withdrawn on either part, their union is gone." Any state forced to remain in a union by military force" can never be a co-equal member of the American Union " and can be viewed only as a "subject province." --Daily Union Newspaper, Bangor, Maine Nov. 13, 1860 |
| The federal government that invaded the South in 1861 is now destroying the rights and liberties of middle-class Americans - North, South, East, and West. The problems faced by middle-class Americans today are proof that in 1861, the South was right! -The Kennedy Brothers, Why Not Freedom! |
| ...the contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena. -Jefferson Davis, address to the Mississippi legislature 16 years after the war ended. |
| That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. -Article of Rights, Constitution of Tennessee |