War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world,… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
“Reflecting on the recurrent civil wars of the Late Republic, Sallust said, “It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations,… — Mike Duncan Copy Share Image
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with… — Charles Fessenden Morse Copy Share Image
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“if at all, since the Civil War. In Greenwood, many black workers were still earning 30 cents an hour and returning huge… — Ian Bell Copy Share Image
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“As the story is told, determined to inspire his men to take the offensive, Jackson suddenly rode into the battlefield and attempted… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these… — George Levy Copy Share Image
“I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end. — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
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