We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which compared ‘food versus cash’ in four countries, found that in three of the four –… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“The CSS Alabama’s captain, Rafael Semmes, was a devout Catholic who saw the Civil War as a religious struggle. He associated Northern… — Andrew Lees 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
“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell… — Angelina Grimke 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
I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do… — Robert E. Lee 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
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln is usually regarded as the greatest of all American presidents. When experts rated the presidents on the desire to please… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent,… — David Slade Copy Share Image
Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns. — John Bell Hood Copy Share Image
“We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these… — George Levy Copy Share Image
The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“The busy 20th and 21st centuries have made Garfield's era seem remote and irrelevant, its leaders ridiculed for their very obscurity... to… — Kenneth D. Ackerman Copy Share Image
