I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. — Homer Copy Share Image
Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! — Maxcy Gregg Copy Share Image
I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear… — Lauren Ambrose Copy Share Image
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries.… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I don’t mean to offend, but . . . how did you die? I mean what happened that made Raphael turn you?”… — D.B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles… — Malcolm H. Murfett Copy Share Image
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more occult than the way letters, under the auspices of unimaginable carriers, circulate through the weird mess of civil wars;… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
