Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — Abraham Lincoln 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
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was… — Ziad Doueiri Copy Share Image
The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“The truck looked just like a Civil War truck if they'd had trucks back in those times. But the truck ran, even… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Norton, 1987); Joan E. Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel." — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued. — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
