A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if… — William Odom Copy Share Image
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain.… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who… — Sam Crawford Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors…it's not like you think it will… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value—you have now established an unselfish society where they trade… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. … — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one.… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“Feeling increasingly at odds with his superiors, in a letter sent from Gaines’ Mills, Virginia dated June 28, 1862, a frustrated McClellan… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“….two slate-colored gravestones settled at a slant into the lower corner of the field beside the lane. She could not read the… — Gladys Hasty Carroll Copy Share Image
“In 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Grant, aged thirty-nine, with four children at home and scarcely a penny in… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Back in 1992, the camp originally held ninety thousand Somali refugees fleeing the civil war. They had reproduced. Then others had come:… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been… — Bobcat Goldthwait 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
![“We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a…” quote by Adam Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6d/adam-beach-18451_america_we-americans-have-a-historical-trauma-wh_3085995.jpg)
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