I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. — Bum Phillips Copy Share Image
Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it… — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.” — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him,… — Kevin Wallis Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“It must be said here that ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ is not an attribute of patriotism, but of deep patriarchy. Extreme mother-love… — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Finally, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as Thanksgiving: a day to… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Okay, first of all, they don't "consider" Jefferson Davis racist, he was President of the Confederacy, his racism is not up for… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Melanie is the gentlest of dreams and a part of my dreaming. And if the war had not come I would have… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image