“You know it’s going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there’s going to be two men and she… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to start a civil war. And then that same brick could be used to start building the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one.… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
“While technically Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was the border state, a schizophrenic no-man’s-land with the North… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
