The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. — Bum Phillips Copy Share Image
By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
“The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One… — Arthur Miller 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
“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent…They are being conscripted. — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“HON. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington. General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on terms proposed by… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees.… — Kim Novak 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
“General Banks saw that Jackson meant business, and so recalled General Williams’ brigade that was en route to Centreville. The rebels suffered… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains. History proceeding in screams of cold metal. The tsar’s wheeled palace, shunted into… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those… — Alain Supiot Copy Share Image
An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances.… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“the great advantage the South possessed over the North at the beginning of the rebellion. They had from thirty to forty per… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The West found an excuse for every incident and boxed and labeled it under the context of the country in which it… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — William Nelson Copy Share Image
I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark. — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
