I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.” — Mike Millar Copy Share Image
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also… — Stonewall Jackson 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
Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“While the future fortunes of the more than two million civil war refugees from Russia differed hugely, depending on circumstances and luck,… — Robert Gerwarth Copy Share Image
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
“With faulty caps and no artillery present, the Stonewall Brigade fought with knife, bayonet, gun butt, and fist. Those who were able,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for… — George Levy Copy Share Image
“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long search for a narrative that could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“We all thought Richmond, protected as it was by our splendid fortifications and defended by our army of veterans, could not be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Secretary Seward, who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State—a long-headed and shrewd politician—prophesied that the war would be over in ninety days; and… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The church, so long a brake on progress in other European countries, no longer controlled the economic life of the country. Henry… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?” — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image