The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The… — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“There is such a weight of history behind this that it makes Valerio feel weak. He has never experienced anything of the… — Sahar Delijani Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the Underground Railroad became a spy network, so we could still have fresh stories for these characters years… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about… — Chris Rock 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
Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Where I grew up, death is a constant visitor. A virus, bacteria, a parasite; drought and famine; soldiers, and torturers; could bring… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a sad white girl. I wanted to be sad like Lana Del Rey. I wanted a sadness… — Christopher Soto Copy Share Image
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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
I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
“For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed… — David Armitage Copy Share Image
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying… — George Levy Copy Share Image
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding… — George Pickett Copy Share Image
“The new evangelical movement in the early 19th century was strongly focused on social justice and social equality. The famous English preacher… — Andrew Himes 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
Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
“New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and… — Bill Maher 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