We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Civil War, I'm front line my mind like Sherman My gat like Ulysses, grant them bullets, keep burnin'. — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.” — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil… — Iyad Allawi Copy Share Image
Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
There's always been deep divisions in this country - we had a civil war - and there've been regional and cultural and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But as those who lived through the Civil War died off, Grant’s reputation faltered. ... A generation that remembered war as mustard… — Brady Carlson Copy Share Image
Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had… — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last… — James Parton Copy Share Image
“No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I… — Louisa May Alcott 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
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
“I tell you, Colonel, we got to win this war. What will happen, do you think, if we lose? Do you think… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In Julia’s view, the Dent slaves were all “very happy. At least they were in mamma’s time, though the young ones became… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Hong’s message fired the imagination of millions of desperate Chinese, who were shaken by China’s defeats in the Opium Wars and by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. — John M. Corse Copy Share Image
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“the Germans all hate the Kaiser and there’ll most likely be a civil war, instead.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image