In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. — David Icke Copy Share Image
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“After a siege of 293 days, Grant forced the Confederates to abandon Petersburg and Richmond on the same day.” — Ronald C. White Jr Copy Share Image
“Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to “see the elephant,” as Civil War soldiers were… — Robert L. O'Connell Copy Share Image
I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against… — John Brown Baldwin 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
“He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“You know what Forrest had the nerve to do?” “Son of a bitch has the nerve to do damn near anything. That's… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“When I first went to Rwanda, I was reading a book called Civil War, which had been receiving great critical acclaim. Writing… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Lee crushed this idea in a few words. “If I took your advice, the men would be without rations and under no… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Granite from New Hampshire has been used in construction at Arlington National Cemetery, the Library of Congress, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, and… — Lori Baird Copy Share Image
“After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the… — P. G. T. Beauregard Copy Share Image
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Apparently, it was common for children to participate in the Civil War, and thus, lots of fathers had brought their sons along… — Stuart Gibbs Copy Share Image
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the… — Mike Hughes Copy Share Image
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart… — John Green Copy Share Image
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image