Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Trotsky's assault on Kronstadt in March 1921 marked a point of no return. There was no longer even a whiff of pretense… — Sean McMeekin Copy Share Image
“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“As a child of civil war, I disbelieve in structured learning—actually I believe that one can be an intellectual without being a… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history… — William Silverman Copy Share Image
I'm not an apologist for Iran's actions. Iran certainly has supported activities of terrorism, and the Houthis don't have clean hands. The… — Ro Khanna 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
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world,… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone 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
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
