As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“More than 3,000 women helped out as nurses during the Civil War. Nursing was a new job for women in America. Before… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“With the gun which was too big for him, the breech-loader which did not even belong to him but to Major de… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is… — Werner Neff Copy Share Image
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“since the Depression, we bankers have had the leisure and . . . solitude, you might say, to think about the future. The Civil War… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
![“Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever joined somebody else's civil war. I think they were primarily people who were deeply alarmed by the menace of fascism. They saw this on the horizon. I…” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cf/adam-hochschild-4138_civil-war_some-2-800-americans-went-to-spain-durin_3139882.jpg)
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