Civil Wars Quotes

Elisha Hunt Rhodes: This afternoon, seeing the general alone in the office, I stepped up to him and said, "General, I want to go home." "Want to go home, and for what?" he said. Unable to think of an answer, I blurted out. "I want to see my mother." "Is she sick?" he asked. "No," I replied, "I hope not." He asked me how long I had been away from home and if I was ever away for so long a time before. I told him I had been in the service for seven months and had never been away from home before.

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Mel Burgess: He's closing the borders, people! Thank God for arrogance, lust, and greed or we'd all be doing infomercials.

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The President: [after deciding on a deadline that won't interfere with All My Children] It was almost half a century ago that another president , Dwight D. Eisenhower, found it necessary to use US troops to enforce the constitutional rights of the US government... If necessary I will do the same. I am therefore declaring a deadline of 67 and a half hours from now...
Alan Manieski: [In news room] 67 and a... WHAT THE **** IS THAT?
The President: ...by which time the state of Idaho must comply with the constitutional prerogatives of these United States of America as they were delineated by our founding fathers.
Governor of Idaho: [At Idaho Capitol Building] What an asshole.

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The President: Since when does a soap opera control the future of the country? ...

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