First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the…

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were…

— Mary Virginia Terhune

But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other…

— John Brown Baldwin

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the…

— Stephen A. Douglas

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is,…

— Anonymous

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

— Walt Whitman

“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights.  Then he…

— Charles River Editors

“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ”

— Deborah Ford

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

— Robert E. Lee

It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;…

— Homer Bone

“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of…

— Mark Ellis

“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar…

— Gary Shteyngart

“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father…

— Gwenn Wright

“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has…

— Ken Kesey