Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear… — Lauren Ambrose 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
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi 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
“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“By October of 1958, most roads leading to the Oriente Province had become impassable. Bridges were cut and dropped by the rebels,… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant.… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Following the Civil War, Americans began to perceive it new version of the earlier land-population-wealth crisis as an alarming trend of land… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Savage violence has erupted in recent years across a broad swathe of territory: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, suicide bombings… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Syria's bloody civil war has arrived in Damascus, as rebels and pro-government forces wage fierce battles in the city's suburban areas. A… — Cbc News Copy Share Image
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can think of no better way to honor our fallen Civil War Union soldiers than by reminding Confederate flag-wavers that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. — Rand Paul 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
There's always been deep divisions in this country - we had a civil war - and there've been regional and cultural and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Civil War, I'm front line my mind like Sherman My gat like Ulysses, grant them bullets, keep burnin'. — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S. — Lovell Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.” — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
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