We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln 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
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does;… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
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![“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which it had unleashed in the country, the tensions and angers just below the surface, the thin fabric of the society which held it all together, so easy to rend.” quote by David Halberstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c8/david-halberstam-9032_american-civil-war_david-riesman-had-made-a-hobby-of-studyi_1456811.png)
