“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
If Afghanistan slides back into chaos and civil war it will drag Pakistan down with it, with five times the population and… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark. — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
“one who, though he never digress to read a Lecture, Moral or Political, upon his own Text, nor enter into men’s hearts,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians.… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every… — Robert Toombs 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
“As the FAU redirected its humanitarian endeavours, it risked being viewed as politically aligned, not only because of who its financial backers… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil… — J.R. Ward 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
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image