I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. — Homer Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
“More than 3,000 women helped out as nurses during the Civil War. Nursing was a new job for women in America. Before… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment. — Francis Wilkinson Pickens Copy Share Image
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear… — Lauren Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Above all, Franco understood how to take advantage of opportunities when they arose. His natural caution and conservatism proved particularly valuable during… — Geoffrey Jensen Copy Share Image
Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“At least 600,000 men died in the Civil War. Major battles numbered the dead in the thousands; even minor skirmishes killed hundreds...Then… — Phillip Shaw Pauadan Copy Share Image
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well,… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
“In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Lee crushed this idea in a few words. “If I took your advice, the men would be without rations and under no… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“You know what Forrest had the nerve to do?” “Son of a bitch has the nerve to do damn near anything. That's… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“When I first went to Rwanda, I was reading a book called Civil War, which had been receiving great critical acclaim. Writing… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
