Skip to content

The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers. We have never been a nation; we are only an aggregate of communities, ready to fall apart at the first serious shock and without a centre of vigorous national life to keep us together.

— George Templeton Strong

Another quote →

More quotes by George Templeton Strong

All the indications are that this treasonable inflammation—secessionitis—keeps on making steady progress week by week.

Today will be known as Black Monday. We are utterly and disgracefully routed, beaten, whipped by secessionists.

If disunion become an established fact, we have one consolation. The self-amputated members were diseased beyond immediate cure, and their virus will infect our system no longer.

All George Templeton Strong quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: George Templeton Strong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.