The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Since before the Civil War, crosses have indeed garnished veterans' memorials from the North to the South, from Arlington to Normandy, and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I… — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Directly in front of me, crossing the street, I saw a woman laughing and walking arm in arm with two men. When… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Deanell Tacha and I decided to write an editorial, because both of us have had experiences in countries where the rule of… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
I grew up in Georgia where my parents, little brother Zurab and I shared a flat with my paternal grandparents and two… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
“Our central thesis is that some inventions are more important than others, and that the revolutionary century after the Civil War was… — Robert J. Gordon 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
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Mmm," said Ares, without turning his head. "This war on terror isn't producing enough casualties. Bringing in Iran is the obvious choice,… — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
“For more than a hundred years the Republic of South Africa had been the center of racial strife. Men of good will… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
