When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and… — Steven Spielberg 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
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
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“Brig. Gen. Barnard Bee was compelled to give the order to fall back. Attempting to rally the retreating men, Bee used Gen.… — Charles A. Mills Copy Share Image
In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt"… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy… — Gianni Agnelli Copy Share Image
One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern… — Rufus Dawes Copy Share Image
Here Sunday, April, 9th, 1865, after four years of heroic struggle in defense of the principals believed to be fundamental to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region,… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
“I know this because the worst has happened. The thing I can’t live with… has happened. And for all our back and… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“A young women asked Lee what he would do. Lee replied, "I shall welcome him into my home, show him all the… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
I left my home, and it was the most beautiful country in the world in my eyes, and I was always happy… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians.… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It… — Albert Goodwill Spalding Copy Share Image
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
