Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I once left my wife and child in a hotel in Mexico to fly to Guatemala in this tiny plane for two… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Then as Anna listened another sound began to rise within the first. It began as a low keening, like the wind in… — Howard Bahr Copy Share Image
“To the followers of the murdered Caesar: Do you march against Decimus Brutus Albinus in Gaul, or against the son of Caesar… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“JAKE BAKER JOINING THE UNION ARMY IN NEW ORLEANS "I'd prefer to be back in Texas, taking aim at the Rebs..., but… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“The busy 20th and 21st centuries have made Garfield's era seem remote and irrelevant, its leaders ridiculed for their very obscurity... to… — Kenneth D. Ackerman Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Civil War generals began the war employing tactics from the Napoleonic Era, which saw Napoleon dominate the European continent and win crushing… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a… — Sam Davis Copy Share Image
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro's base and trigger displays of military force, potentially… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.” — George Levy Copy Share Image
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil… — Leonard Leventon Copy Share Image
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
