Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip.… — Greever Williams Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“The highly moralistic and uncompromising outlook of the Puritans eventually put them and their descendants on a collision course with the institution… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Inasmuch as he had relieved Johnston and appointed Hood, and Hood had immediately taken the initiative, it is natural to suppose that… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
“I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“It was this intense self-discipline and objectivity that allowed Rockefeller to seize advantage from obstacle after obstacle in his life, during the… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade. — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“While technically Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was the border state, a schizophrenic no-man’s-land with the North… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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