We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 when the Republic of China government” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“If the men I had the honor to command that day could not take that position, all Hell couldn't take it." -Isaac… — Micheal Shaara Copy Share Image
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There was a programme in the Channel 4 'Dispatches' series called 'Burma's Secret War' that chilled me to the marrow. This is… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Floyd did not accept the blame for his defeat. He blamed his fellow general Henry Wise for not committing some of his… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
Memorial Day is rooted deep in American history and has spanned all of America's major wars since the Civil War. Originally called… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“The traumatic experience of the Civil War and its aftermath in the 19th century was the incubator of Christian fundamentalism in 20th century… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have? 'Some war,' he said… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army. It was, with a large… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“I don’t mean to offend, but . . . how did you die? I mean what happened that made Raphael turn you?”… — D.B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
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