My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the… — Franklin Marion Havens Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil… — Iyad Allawi Copy Share Image
Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“Why did people ignore the lessons of history and their own senses, deny a law of life immutable as the seasons, and… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was… — Ziad Doueiri 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
“It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home! — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
