I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Why did we have to do terrible things to get what we needed? When all of this bloodshed and heartache and resentment… — Kailey Bright Copy Share Image
“Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“that and throughout the Civil War, this single building housed the entirety of the Smithsonian’s collections. But where did this shining testament… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Rather than making loose and unsubstantiated claims that Obama and Clinton created ISIS, it would behoove Trump if he advanced some real… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that… — Louis Wigfall Copy Share Image
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“[U]nless one is to yield to biological determinism and accept that the possession of black sin creates a unique black mentality and… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where… — Tsitsi Dangarembga Copy Share Image
Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“He was a large, austere man, and I judge difficult of approach to his subordinates. To be extolled by the entire press… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong… — Tobin T. Buhk Copy Share Image
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities. — Edward A. Pollard Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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