I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“The Russian civil war was won in 1919, but sealed the fate of the revolution, as the victory over the Whites was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters'… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the… — Charles B. Dew Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
“Going by current developments, India is sure to catch up - not in 50, but in another 20 years - with America...… — Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
“The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Having been battered by the world in his earlier years, he had come to rely on family and friends and never forgot… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a sad white girl. I wanted to be sad like Lana Del Rey. I wanted a sadness… — Christopher Soto Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. — David Icke Copy Share Image
In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to “see the elephant,” as Civil War soldiers were… — Robert L. O'Connell Copy Share Image
“After a siege of 293 days, Grant forced the Confederates to abandon Petersburg and Richmond on the same day.” — Ronald C. White Jr Copy Share Image
I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football. — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
The number-one affliction of all of our veterans, of all of our wars - Iraq, Vietnam, back to the Civil War -… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
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