The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't… — Ian Paisley Copy Share Image
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male… — Heather Graham Pozzessere Copy Share Image
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together -… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A… — John Willis Ellis Copy Share Image
Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor.… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.)… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“I allude," she said, "to the insurrection in our midst—a sort of civil war in our camp. There are, I am given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s a little known fact, but Hoboken, the Mile Square City, was originally an island in the Hudson River. Of course, its… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“You know it’s going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there’s going to be two men and she… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“one who, though he never digress to read a Lecture, Moral or Political, upon his own Text, nor enter into men’s hearts,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“We had fed the heart on fantasies. / The heart’s grown brutal from the fare.” From “Meditations in Time of Civil War,”… — James Thompson Copy Share Image
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Doing something to make ourselves feel better is beside the real point of defeating Isis and ending the Syrian civil war. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has… — Atifete Jahjaga 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
