“(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war.… — Tulsi Gabbard 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
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
“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
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men… — Terry Pratchett 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
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“To The Undertaker or Friends Who Open This Coffin: After laying back the lid of the coffin, remove entirely the pads from… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
“McClellan knew that Jackson’s force was relatively small, so he only sent 16,000 men under the command of Major General Nathaniel P.… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical predictions. The land wasn’t properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder;… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
“A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong… — Tobin T. Buhk Copy Share Image
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“Why did we have to do terrible things to get what we needed? When all of this bloodshed and heartache and resentment… — Kailey Bright Copy Share Image
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“If the men I had the honor to command that day could not take that position, all Hell couldn't take it." -Isaac… — Micheal Shaara Copy Share Image
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
There was a programme in the Channel 4 'Dispatches' series called 'Burma's Secret War' that chilled me to the marrow. This is… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image