When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“We can take things as slowly as you want, but you know it’s too late now to change your mind, Pierce,” he… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“What we did in that momentous year of 1558 caused political strife, revolt, civil war, and invasion. There were times, in later… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald 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
“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“We are woken gently at three in the morning and told that we need to leave. Guided by the light of the… — Marco Lupis Copy Share Image
“Now, however, Cooper’s romanticism was a receding memory, a newly muscular America replacing it with a post–Civil War vision of Manifest Destiny.… — Bob Drury Copy Share Image
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
“Jones described what followed in his official report: All the oil, the tanks, barrels,engines for pumping, engine-houses, and wagons- in a word,… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“More than 3,000 women helped out as nurses during the Civil War. Nursing was a new job for women in America. Before… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
