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
“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 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
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 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
Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of… — George Meade 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
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“I've heard of more ways to die in this war than I knew there were corpses. I've heard there isn't a battle… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“They turned on the television and saw some news story about another goddamn humanitarian crisis, another goddamn civil war in some godforsaken… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“He won the Civil War for the North, and re-established the Union which today has grown into the vastest consolidated power since… — J.F.C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“The Spanish Civil War proved both the revolutionary vigour of communitarian bonds and forms which have been penetrated by capital but which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“He immediately had Rawlins summon stretcher bearers, but was dismayed when they removed the Union officer and overlooked the Confederate private. “Take… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Why don't you make everybody an Alpha Double Plus while you're about it?" Mustapha Mond laughed. "Because we have no wish to… — Huxley, Aldous 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
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
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
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
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
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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
Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation. — Hisham Matar 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
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
“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
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
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
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