I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairies; people do Civil War re-enactments; people… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference,… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
I don't know that a movie like Doctor Strange couldn't have been the second or third film we made. I don't think… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death.… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication.… — David Bowie 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
“The local pub, The Red Lion, has the double distinction of being the only pub in Britain to be surrounded by a… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
“Had the European traveller chanced upon Philip Dru, Administrator, a novel published anonymously the previous year about an America of the near… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“After the battle ended and the Union army was in rapid retreat, Beauregard stated sardonically that had Richmond dispatched adequate supplies to… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and… — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue,… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent…They are being conscripted. — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.” — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
If Afghanistan slides back into chaos and civil war it will drag Pakistan down with it, with five times the population and… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
“The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image