I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
“The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip.… — Greever Williams Copy Share Image
But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“I allude," she said, "to the insurrection in our midst—a sort of civil war in our camp. There are, I am given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image