Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world,… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I once left my wife and child in a hotel in Mexico to fly to Guatemala in this tiny plane for two… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
“The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman 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
“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“In the closing years of John Wesley’s life, he became a friend of William Wilberforce. In England, Wilberforce was a great champion… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.” — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
“He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
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
