“The oak trees seemed as though they were playing instruments; here a gentle violin, over there two harps in harmony, flutes and… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“That doesn't sound like civil war to me," said Gaylen, turning back to his book with a smile. "It only sounds silly."… — Natalie Babbitt 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
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army. It was, with a large… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The collapse of order brings in its wake the four horsemen of the apocalypse - famine, war, pestilence, and death. Population declines,… — Peter Turchin Copy Share Image
“The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which compared ‘food versus cash’ in four countries, found that in three of the four –… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities. — Edward A. Pollard Copy Share Image
Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund Copy Share Image
Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear… — Lauren Ambrose Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image