And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well,… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“But as those who lived through the Civil War died off, Grant’s reputation faltered. ... A generation that remembered war as mustard… — Brady Carlson Copy Share Image
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You know what Forrest had the nerve to do?” “Son of a bitch has the nerve to do damn near anything. That's… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
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The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
“In the closing years of John Wesley’s life, he became a friend of William Wilberforce. In England, Wilberforce was a great champion… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course. And I've talked to a lot of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“Closing down an event with Confederate reenactors is never really easy for a black guy. Let’s face it, the Confederates lost the… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“It is to point out that at this late hour, the totems of the empire of slavery—chief among them, its flag—still enjoy… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For the average person, 98 percent of those who fought in the Civil War, they did not own slaves. They were simply… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War,… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
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