“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

“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

“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

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

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Deborah Ford

“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

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

Walt Whitman

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do…

Robert E. Lee

“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…

Ralph Ellison

I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition,…

James A. Connolly

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

Jim Webb