In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict… — Ger Duany Copy Share Image
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Vietnam had never been a true civil war. It was a war of conquest, initiated and perpetuated for more than two decades… — Andy Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Modifying Clausewitz’ aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
“I believe — I daily find it proved — that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Mmm," said Ares, without turning his head. "This war on terror isn't producing enough casualties. Bringing in Iran is the obvious choice,… — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him,… — Kevin Wallis Copy Share Image
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?” — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
“At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“It was the lot of the Fifity-fourth to bear the brunt of the struggle against the bitter injustice of inferior pay to… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image