Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal. — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home! — George B. McClellan 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
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“It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S. — Lovell Rousseau Copy Share Image
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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well,… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I think of Baghdad years ago, when I met Professor Al-Rawi for the first time to discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,… — Michael Pitre Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“Gettysburg is still considered the most famous battle of the war. Why? At Gettysburg, the tide turned. Up until then, the South… — Jim O'Connor 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
“Here we introduce the nation's first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history's first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated… — Timothy Wu Copy Share Image
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever. — Jefferson Davis 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
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
