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 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
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
It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was… — Ziad Doueiri Copy Share Image
The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Divide and conquer. That’s the global elite’s proven strategy when it comes to its treatment of Third World countries in Africa and… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“For that particular community, for my community, the message has long been clear: The Civil War is a story for white people—acted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters'… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
“The Russian civil war was won in 1919, but sealed the fate of the revolution, as the victory over the Whites was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the… — Charles B. Dew Copy Share Image
“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued. — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel." — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
