What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
BELLE BOYD
Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.
More Belle Boyd Quotes
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I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
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Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
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Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
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I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman’s right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.
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I only wanted to help my people.
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There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots.
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A true woman always loves a real soldier.
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I hope my arm falls paralyzed to my side….Get out. I’m so disgusted I can’t endure your presence any longer.
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I hope that when I commence that oath, my tongue may cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I ever sign one line to show allegiance.
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I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God’s decree, work out her own independence.
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