Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture,… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War.… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
You could easily rename 'Captain America: Civil War' as 'Captain America Defunds S.H.I.E.L.D' and nobody would've noticed. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation… — George Levy Copy Share Image
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“if at all, since the Civil War. In Greenwood, many black workers were still earning 30 cents an hour and returning huge… — Ian Bell Copy Share Image
As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
“while the framers of the United States Constitution were ashamed of slavery and used euphemisms in place of the term "slave", the… — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Jackson, on the other hand, would be reinforced with several regiments, bringing his total force to 18,500. Robert E. Lee wrote to… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“He was a large, austere man, and I judge difficult of approach to his subordinates. To be extolled by the entire press… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where… — Tsitsi Dangarembga Copy Share Image
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut,… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“All war is civil war, for it is always man against man, spilling his own blood, tearing out his own entrails.” — Fenelon Bonavides Neto Copy Share Image
I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men ,… — James A. Connolly Copy Share Image
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Chinese authorities demonstrated during the climate-related civil war that began in Sudan in 2003 that they would support mass murderers when doing… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were… — Andrew Taylor Still Copy Share Image
My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall… — Joseph Hooker Copy Share Image
He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
![“As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.” quote by Mara Liasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14a/mara-liasson-8465_choices_as-one-conservative-intellectual-said-to_2833616.jpg)
![“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.” quote by Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/fanny-kemble-13000_anger_on-john-brown-the-poor-wretch-is-hanged_1845105.jpg)
