He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a… — James I. Robertson, Jr Copy Share Image
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“It was said by Abraham Lincoln that Ms. Stowe's novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, started the great civil war, the it can be… — Alabama Jane Brown Copy Share Image
“The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“In the American South, there are hundreds of Civil War battle monuments and preserved plantation manor houses for every exhibit that in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
“She would, on the birthday of Christ, allow herself what she called "an extra helping of prayer." At the time of the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro's base and trigger displays of military force, potentially… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a… — Sam Davis Copy Share Image
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil… — Leonard Leventon Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.” — George Levy Copy Share Image
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
