As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such… — Geoffrey Jensen Copy Share Image
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
“As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War…he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
“these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans.… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“What we did in that momentous year of 1558 caused political strife, revolt, civil war, and invasion. There were times, in later… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“In writing this, I am not being political, but am rather pointing out the deeply divided condition of the nation. Divisions range… — R. Loren Sandford Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“...but in 1917 we had no cares except the mundane ones of starvation and occupation and civil war, and for those of… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
In 2013, I had to do 'The Wright Stuff' on about an hour's sleep. I was asked, 'What do you make of… — Rylan Clark-Neal Copy Share Image
“The few and scattered references of freedpeople suffering from the challenges of emancipation have been overlooked because these episodes do not fit… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
“Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
“An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled… — James Smith Copy Share Image
The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
“The Lamar Life stationary carried on its letterhead an oval portrait of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, for whom the Company had been… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image