Reconstruction Quotes

“Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.”

“At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken.”

“We're going to get the power on. We're going to get the water on. We're going to get the sewers on. We're going to get the food distributed.”

“At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being is rebuilt.”

“Treason is a crime and must be made odious.”

“We cannot build a new South Africa on the ashes of the old.”

“When the civil authorities are ready and willing to perform their duties, the military power should cease to lead, and the civil administration resume its natural and rightful dominion.”

“Reconstruction is not just about buildings; it is about rebuilding the soul of the nation.”

“Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.”

“Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send them forth to labor and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble the proud traitors.”

“We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”

“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.”

“Unless we can get the German people on our side, we can't do the job in Germany.”

“We are being realistic. We are not setting our hopes too high.”

“The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conqueror.”

“The state was overrun with bands of Ku Klux, who were burning the school-houses and churches of the colored people and murdering their teachers.”

“We are determined to rebuild our country on the basis of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.”

“The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and it never can be done if this opportunity is lost.”

“Let us, then, forgetting the past, except to derive from its bitter experience lessons for our future guidance, and looking only to the public welfare, harmoniously and unitedly labor for the promotion of the general good.”