“The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“In the American South, there are hundreds of Civil War battle monuments and preserved plantation manor houses for every exhibit that in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
“She would, on the birthday of Christ, allow herself what she called "an extra helping of prayer." At the time of the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances.… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those… — Alain Supiot Copy Share Image
“the great advantage the South possessed over the North at the beginning of the rebellion. They had from thirty to forty per… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income,… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains. History proceeding in screams of cold metal. The tsar’s wheeled palace, shunted into… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“General Banks saw that Jackson meant business, and so recalled General Williams’ brigade that was en route to Centreville. The rebels suffered… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One… — Iris Tree Copy Share Image
“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“In early September, convinced that the best way to defend Richmond was to divert attention to Washington, Lee had decided to invade… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“Inasmuch as he had relieved Johnston and appointed Hood, and Hood had immediately taken the initiative, it is natural to suppose that… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope… — Charles Emmerson 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
“The hardships of the Civil War were forgotten. But we will never forget that each of us was motivated by the firm… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of men crowded the yard, and not a one among them was whole. They covered the ground thick as maggots on… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
“The West found an excuse for every incident and boxed and labeled it under the context of the country in which it… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
