For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
“Based upon his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, Richthofen employed his seven Stukagruppen and single ground-attack Gruppe to devastating effect by… — Helmit Mahlke Copy Share Image
Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I… — Edmund Kirby Smith Copy Share Image
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not… — Sullivan Ballou Copy Share Image
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“When I asked Marine Sergeant Jeffrey Roberts what he thought was happening in Lebanon, he explained, “To me it was a civil… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“African Americans weren’t the only ones who took a hit. The states of the Deep South, which fought Brown tooth and nail,… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“This was true, she knew. Being involved with him gave her the privileged position of knowing him intimately. There were nights when… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The solution to the economic and political failure of nations today is to transform their extractive institutions toward inclusive ones. The vicious… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Add the shortage of blankets, warm clothing, and vegetables, and the result was likely to be more suffering and more death than… — George Levy Copy Share Image
“A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of… — Wojciech Jaruzelski Copy Share Image
You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil… — Brendan Sexton III Copy Share Image
“The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War, when more than 400,000 pioneers made the trek between… — Rinker Buck Copy Share Image
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war.… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
“When the masses are against you, when fear is on every side, and when it seems like you are standing alone, that… — Ammar Habib Copy Share Image
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict… — Ger Duany Copy Share Image
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“By the end of the war, the Civil War had become a forerunner to the trench warfare of World War I, and… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil… — Alex de Waal Copy Share Image
Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
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