I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — James L. Petigru Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 when the Republic of China government” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned… — Zebulon Baird Vance Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“She would, on the birthday of Christ, allow herself what she called "an extra helping of prayer." At the time of the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
“In the American South, there are hundreds of Civil War battle monuments and preserved plantation manor houses for every exhibit that in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“It was this intense self-discipline and objectivity that allowed Rockefeller to seize advantage from obstacle after obstacle in his life, during the… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear. — John Pope Copy Share Image
![“The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/645/john-stuart-mill-477_affair_the-triumph-of-the-confederacy-would-be_182321.jpg)
