I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil… — Iyad Allawi Copy Share Image
There's always been deep divisions in this country - we had a civil war - and there've been regional and cultural and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Our movement was a great success; I think the most successful military movement of my life. But I expect to receive more… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of… — George Meade Copy Share Image
“Hong’s message fired the imagination of millions of desperate Chinese, who were shaken by China’s defeats in the Opium Wars and by… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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
“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
“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 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
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet 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
“the Germans all hate the Kaiser and there’ll most likely be a civil war, instead.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
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