The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. — T. S. Eliot 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
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.” — Nancy B. Brewer 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
“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and… — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted… — John Moody Copy Share Image
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Gaius Julius Caesar, fifty two years old, supreme Roman military commander, the most powerful man on earth was making reports in his… — Julian Noyce Copy Share Image
“I’m an aid worker. I’ve been helping South Sudanese people who’ve returned to their villages after being displaced by the civil war… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“That doesn't sound like civil war to me," said Gaylen, turning back to his book with a smile. "It only sounds silly."… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“With the Confederate army divided and Pope’s army between them, Pope was now positioned to prevent them from linking up by blocking… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“It is not the self respect and pride that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind to your children… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“After the war, Lee described Traveller in a letter:"Fine proportions, muscular figure, deep chest, short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head,… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“Jones described what followed in his official report: All the oil, the tanks, barrels,engines for pumping, engine-houses, and wagons- in a word,… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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
By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image