We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Howell Cobb Copy Share Image
“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.” — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched. — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
“I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such… — Geoffrey Jensen Copy Share Image
When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too.… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image