“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart… — John Green Copy Share Image
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them… — Philibert Orry Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed… — David Armitage Copy Share Image
“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward! — John F. Reynolds Copy Share Image
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln 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
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa clearly show just how dangerous the world is, and how great the challenges… — Matthew M. Aid Copy Share Image
In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“The hardships of the Civil War were forgotten. But we will never forget that each of us was motivated by the firm… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“Most American ideas were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century common-wealthmen, the radical Whig ideology that arose from a… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
