I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here… — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him,… — Kevin Wallis Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A… — John Willis Ellis Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“For reasons that are still unclear, Union troops in camp at Frederick came across a copy of Special Order 191, wrapped up… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She… — Warsan Shire 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
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
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
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
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
“The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.” — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. — George Ayittey 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 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
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
“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
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
