Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
The principal cause of war is war itself.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.