I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
If Afghanistan slides back into chaos and civil war it will drag Pakistan down with it, with five times the population and… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.” — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
When it was announced that Spider-Man was going to be in Captain America: Civil War, "Miles Morales" was trending on Twitter for… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“Spirit photos were sometimes made to remember someone who had died. During the American Civil War, when hundreds of thousands of people… — Avi Copy Share Image
I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
“Their toil had made Jackson’s fortune and raised him to the prominence that won him election as the head of Tennessee’s militia.… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“That’s exactly where they send entry-level diplomats. After you cut your teeth on a few civil wars and a famine or two,… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
“This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains. History proceeding in screams of cold metal. The tsar’s wheeled palace, shunted into… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One… — Iris Tree Copy Share Image
You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“In early September, convinced that the best way to defend Richmond was to divert attention to Washington, Lee had decided to invade… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched. — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if… — William Odom Copy Share Image
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image