The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The church, so long a brake on progress in other European countries, no longer controlled the economic life of the country. Henry… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One… — Iris Tree Copy Share Image
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death.… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“This is Shakespeare and Company, it's the most famous bookstore in the world." She pointed to the shelves that reached the ceiling.… — Anita Hughes Copy Share Image
“In Julia’s view, the Dent slaves were all “very happy. At least they were in mamma’s time, though the young ones became… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. — John M. Corse Copy Share Image
“And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and… — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American… — Danny K. Davis 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
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of… — Augustus Sol Invictus 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
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
