The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
“The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War, when more than 400,000 pioneers made the trek between… — Rinker Buck Copy Share Image
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil… — Brendan Sexton III Copy Share Image
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more occult than the way letters, under the auspices of unimaginable carriers, circulate through the weird mess of civil wars;… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing… — Antonia Fraser 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
“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles… — Malcolm H. Murfett Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We are woken gently at three in the morning and told that we need to leave. Guided by the light of the… — Marco Lupis Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“When the masses are against you, when fear is on every side, and when it seems like you are standing alone, that… — Ammar Habib Copy Share Image
As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war.… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and… — Arthur Hertzberg 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
Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
“For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil… — Alex de Waal Copy Share Image
“By the end of the war, the Civil War had become a forerunner to the trench warfare of World War I, and… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
“Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Indeed, women like Peterman who admitted they joined the army for adventure as opposed to patriotism or love were often viewed with… — DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook Copy Share Image
Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
“Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
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