I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters'… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
“The Russian civil war was won in 1919, but sealed the fate of the revolution, as the victory over the Whites was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the… — Charles B. Dew Copy Share Image
“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“The four foreigners are accused of collaborating with the Egyptians and providing them with information, equipment, and money as well as broadcasting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood… — William C. Oates Copy Share Image
“Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed "Oiltown." This was the site… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
“Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more occult than the way letters, under the auspices of unimaginable carriers, circulate through the weird mess of civil wars;… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles… — Malcolm H. Murfett Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued. — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football. — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The number-one affliction of all of our veterans, of all of our wars - Iraq, Vietnam, back to the Civil War -… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
