Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund Copy Share Image
Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If the men I had the honor to command that day could not take that position, all Hell couldn't take it." -Isaac… — Micheal Shaara Copy Share Image
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut,… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Jackson, on the other hand, would be reinforced with several regiments, bringing his total force to 18,500. Robert E. Lee wrote to… — Charles River Editors 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
“For reasons that are still unclear, Union troops in camp at Frederick came across a copy of Special Order 191, wrapped up… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“The oak trees seemed as though they were playing instruments; here a gentle violin, over there two harps in harmony, flutes and… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
There was a programme in the Channel 4 'Dispatches' series called 'Burma's Secret War' that chilled me to the marrow. This is… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many… — Stonewall Jackson 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
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan 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
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment. — Francis Wilkinson Pickens Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
