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
I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — William Nelson 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
“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that… — Margaret Junkin Preston Copy Share Image
In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
“What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body?” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
