It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter… — Nathaniel Lyon Copy Share Image
Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the… — Peter Bergen 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
“Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income,… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“General Banks saw that Jackson meant business, and so recalled General Williams’ brigade that was en route to Centreville. The rebels suffered… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains. History proceeding in screams of cold metal. The tsar’s wheeled palace, shunted into… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality.… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
“The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong with my clothing?' she asked, glancing down the length of her body, clothed in a tank top and shorts. He… — Suzannah Daniels Copy Share Image
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I grew up in Georgia where my parents, little brother Zurab and I shared a flat with my paternal grandparents and two… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Deanell Tacha and I decided to write an editorial, because both of us have had experiences in countries where the rule of… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does;… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“Our central thesis is that some inventions are more important than others, and that the revolutionary century after the Civil War was… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
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