It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way… — Ed Helms 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
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,… — Frank E. Vandiver Copy Share Image
Dear world, my friends, my family, everyone else I love,I have been thinking of this for quite a while.... I realized this....… — Me Copy Share Image
I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936.… — Murray Bookchin 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
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and… — Rebecca Traister 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
The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees.… — Kim Novak 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
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding… — George Pickett Copy Share Image
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles -… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image