I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to start a civil war. And then that same brick could be used to start building the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition… — William Silverman Copy Share Image
If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force,… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
“(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“By October of 1958, most roads leading to the Oriente Province had become impassable. Bridges were cut and dropped by the rebels,… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant.… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Savage violence has erupted in recent years across a broad swathe of territory: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, suicide bombings… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Following the Civil War, Americans began to perceive it new version of the earlier land-population-wealth crisis as an alarming trend of land… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Syria's bloody civil war has arrived in Damascus, as rebels and pro-government forces wage fierce battles in the city's suburban areas. A… — Cbc News Copy Share Image
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make… — P. G. T. Beauregard Copy Share Image
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .” — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like… — John Buford Copy Share Image
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
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