The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear. — John Pope Copy Share Image
“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ” — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! — Maxcy Gregg Copy Share Image
“The oak trees seemed as though they were playing instruments; here a gentle violin, over there two harps in harmony, flutes and… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother… — Marly Youmans Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more occult than the way letters, under the auspices of unimaginable carriers, circulate through the weird mess of civil wars;… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles… — Malcolm H. Murfett Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was… — Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are woken gently at three in the morning and told that we need to leave. Guided by the light of the… — Marco Lupis Copy Share Image
“During the nineteenth century, corps commander was the highest level of command to still require skills of an operator for success. A… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
![“I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/607/george-saunders-317_abraham_i-ve-been-reading-about-and-writing-abou_3049163.jpg)
