I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. — John M. Corse Copy Share Image
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil… — Anchorman Copy Share Image
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Other corporations have asserted Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment—passed after the Civil War to… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
“Here we introduce the nation's first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history's first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated… — Timothy Wu Copy Share Image
“No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one.… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“I tell you, Colonel, we got to win this war. What will happen, do you think, if we lose? Do you think… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The CSS Alabama’s captain, Rafael Semmes, was a devout Catholic who saw the Civil War as a religious struggle. He associated Northern… — Andrew Lees Copy Share Image
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to… — J. E. B. Stuart Copy Share Image
“#21: CIVIL WAR ON SUNDAY #22: REVOLUTIONARY WAR ON WEDNESDAY #23: TWISTER ON TUESDAY #24: EARTHQUAKE IN THE EARLY MORNING” — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be… — Daniel Fried 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