Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference,… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors…it's not like you think it will… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters,"… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“Now, however, Cooper’s romanticism was a receding memory, a newly muscular America replacing it with a post–Civil War vision of Manifest Destiny.… — Bob Drury Copy Share Image
“With faulty caps and no artillery present, the Stonewall Brigade fought with knife, bayonet, gun butt, and fist. Those who were able,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
“We all thought Richmond, protected as it was by our splendid fortifications and defended by our army of veterans, could not be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Secretary Seward, who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State—a long-headed and shrewd politician—prophesied that the war would be over in ninety days; and… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long search for a narrative that could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for… — George Levy 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
Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairies; people do Civil War re-enactments; people… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never… — Alexander Guchkov Copy Share Image
U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Lee replied: "Tell your friends it is unworthy of them as women, especially Christian women, to cherish feelings of resentment against the… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I once left my wife and child in a hotel in Mexico to fly to Guatemala in this tiny plane for two… — Gregg Wallace 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
“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this tragic event in the American past, democracy is no longer being threatened by secession,… — John Fea Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
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