“Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to “see the elephant,” as Civil War soldiers were… — Robert L. O'Connell Copy Share Image
“After a siege of 293 days, Grant forced the Confederates to abandon Petersburg and Richmond on the same day.” — Ronald C. White Jr Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football. — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It is the observer of the pun that makes it, my dear Brumm. Of course, when the word is distorted, as in… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
“From almost the moment the Civil War ended, Gettysburg has been widely viewed as one of the decisive turning points of the… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Shortly before the battle of Fredericksburg, Jackson learned that he had become a father, receiving a letter informing him of the birth… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Hallie didn't believe she was invulnerable. She was never one of those daredevil types; she knew she could get hurt. What I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The number-one affliction of all of our veterans, of all of our wars - Iraq, Vietnam, back to the Civil War -… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Apparently, it was common for children to participate in the Civil War, and thus, lots of fathers had brought their sons along… — Stuart Gibbs Copy Share Image
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the… — Mike Hughes Copy Share Image
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the… — P. G. T. Beauregard Copy Share Image
“After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Granite from New Hampshire has been used in construction at Arlington National Cemetery, the Library of Congress, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, and… — Lori Baird Copy Share Image
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