“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?” — Elizabeth Fitch Copy Share Image
Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart… — John Green Copy Share Image
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture,… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War.… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Captain America is a matured and a balanced leader. This is something that I am not. So, that made it all the… — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the “Pepper Coast” and on July 26, 1847,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“You have probably seen the order from Washington which cuts down the pay for colored troops from $13 to $10. Of course… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“the word “deadline” has its American origin in Civil War prison camps;” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. — Isaac R. Trimble Copy Share Image
I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
