“The Spanish Civil War proved both the revolutionary vigour of communitarian bonds and forms which have been penetrated by capital but which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“They turned on the television and saw some news story about another goddamn humanitarian crisis, another goddamn civil war in some godforsaken… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“He won the Civil War for the North, and re-established the Union which today has grown into the vastest consolidated power since… — J.F.C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“I've heard of more ways to die in this war than I knew there were corpses. I've heard there isn't a battle… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
“Back in 1992, the camp originally held ninety thousand Somali refugees fleeing the civil war. They had reproduced. Then others had come:… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
“In 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Grant, aged thirty-nine, with four children at home and scarcely a penny in… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Since Ulysses S. Grant’s spelling could border on the eccentric, I have taken the liberty of correcting that and his punctuation and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“I believe — I daily find it proved — that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Divide and conquer. That’s the global elite’s proven strategy when it comes to its treatment of Third World countries in Africa and… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“For that particular community, for my community, the message has long been clear: The Civil War is a story for white people—acted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Where I grew up, death is a constant visitor. A virus, bacteria, a parasite; drought and famine; soldiers, and torturers; could bring… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a sad white girl. I wanted to be sad like Lana Del Rey. I wanted a sadness… — Christopher Soto Copy Share Image
Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Having been battered by the world in his earlier years, he had come to rely on family and friends and never forgot… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Brig. Gen. Barnard Bee was compelled to give the order to fall back. Attempting to rally the retreating men, Bee used Gen.… — Charles A. Mills Copy Share Image
“The truck looked just like a Civil War truck if they'd had trucks back in those times. But the truck ran, even… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Norton, 1987); Joan E. Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats,… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image