...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel." — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued. — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood… — Chris Bohjalian 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
Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
“Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“True, the US Government does not have moral authority to ask for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated.… — Lisa Fugard Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Forrest spat, “Bah. We don’t need it. This world doesn’t need another nation of steel and soot. We showed that magic defeats… — Robert Edward Copy Share Image
“The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her… — Sheridan Brown Copy Share Image
“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
“The Russian civil war was won in 1919, but sealed the fate of the revolution, as the victory over the Whites was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters'… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the… — Charles B. Dew Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. — David Icke Copy Share Image
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
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