[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of men crowded the yard, and not a one among them was whole. They covered the ground thick as maggots on… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“To The Undertaker or Friends Who Open This Coffin: After laying back the lid of the coffin, remove entirely the pads from… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
“When I asked Marine Sergeant Jeffrey Roberts what he thought was happening in Lebanon, he explained, “To me it was a civil… — Thomas L. Friedman 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
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the… — P. G. T. Beauregard Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that… — Audie Murphy 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