In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“A full appreciation of this crucial position requires an examination of the Confederate defense on this side of Antietam Creek and a… — Carol Reardon Copy Share Image
“world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“I hear my father's voice. "Political differences divided what used to be America into The Nationalist States and The Patriot States: Then… — Mya Robarts Copy Share Image
What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent,… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“It is recorded that during the long winter after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when the two rival armies were camped on opposite… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“At one point they passed a newly abandoned Rebel encampment, and Captain Bowers was surprised to see that it looked just like… — Stephen W. Sears Copy Share Image
“While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they… — Sam R. Watkins Copy Share Image
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles… — Anonymous 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
“My first recollection of that day was that early on the morning of September 17, we were all in the cellar with… — Carol Reardon 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
