Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue,… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and… — Patrice Motsepe 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
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor.… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Flag committee chairman Miles did not agree with that sentiment. He opposed adoption of this design and wrote:"There is no propriety in… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent,… — David Slade Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
“As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered… — James Morcan 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.” — Anonymous 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
...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
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