I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?” — Elizabeth Fitch Copy Share Image
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But as those who lived through the Civil War died off, Grant’s reputation faltered. ... A generation that remembered war as mustard… — Brady Carlson Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course. And I've talked to a lot of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“In the closing years of John Wesley’s life, he became a friend of William Wilberforce. In England, Wilberforce was a great champion… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Gettysburg is still considered the most famous battle of the war. Why? At Gettysburg, the tide turned. Up until then, the South… — Jim O'Connor Copy Share Image
