There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too.… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“In writing this, I am not being political, but am rather pointing out the deeply divided condition of the nation. Divisions range… — R. Loren Sandford Copy Share Image
“...but in 1917 we had no cares except the mundane ones of starvation and occupation and civil war, and for those of… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“What we did in that momentous year of 1558 caused political strife, revolt, civil war, and invasion. There were times, in later… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The local pub, The Red Lion, has the double distinction of being the only pub in Britain to be surrounded by a… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these… — George Levy Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end. — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly… — Zebulon Baird Vance Copy Share Image
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns. — John Bell Hood Copy Share Image
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