Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days. — Kliment Voroshilov Copy Share Image
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? — Richard S. Ewell Copy Share Image
I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the “Bone Fire” and asked the yellow moon to shine its… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The four foreigners are accused of collaborating with the Egyptians and providing them with information, equipment, and money as well as broadcasting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed "Oiltown." This was the site… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against… — John Brown Baldwin Copy Share Image
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood… — William C. Oates Copy Share Image
I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Al-Shabaab seemed right about many things. The newsletter said that international aid was brought to ruin Somali agriculture and to make people… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
“Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For more than a hundred years the Republic of South Africa had been the center of racial strife. Men of good will… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Mmm," said Ares, without turning his head. "This war on terror isn't producing enough casualties. Bringing in Iran is the obvious choice,… — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
“And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they… — Hillary Clinton 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
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
