...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .” — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan,… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed… — William Howard Russell Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s true that the people who live through the times that become history’s pivotal points are those least likely to understand… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
We went through tough times when I was very young and I'm so infinitely grateful to my parents. Their journey began during… — Alphonso Davies Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of men crowded the yard, and not a one among them was whole. They covered the ground thick as maggots on… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ” — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! — Maxcy Gregg Copy Share Image
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. — Homer Copy Share Image
“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.” — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
