Malice Toward All, Charity Toward None: The Foundations of the American State by Thomas DiLorenzo

Malice Toward All, Charity Toward None:

The Foundations of the American State by Thomas DiLorenzo: "'Americans are forever proclaiming our boastful aspersions to the world . . . that our government was based on the consent of the people,' though in fact 'it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed.'

~ Letter from Robert E. Lee to E.G.W. Butler, Oct. 11, 1867

'[H]ad the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified . . . in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants.'

~ Lee Kennett, Marching through Georgia: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman, p. 286

In his book Battle Cry for Freedom: The Civil War Era (p. 619), Lincoln cultist James McPherson wrote that some 50,000 Southern civilians perished during the War to Prevent Southern Independence. Others have made estimates that are much higher. The only way this could be possible is that if thousands were murdered in cold blood by the U.S. Army."