I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. — Isaac R. Trimble Copy Share Image
When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“the word “deadline” has its American origin in Civil War prison camps;” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil… — Anchorman Copy Share Image
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to… — J. E. B. Stuart Copy Share Image
“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For the average person, 98 percent of those who fought in the Civil War, they did not own slaves. They were simply… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Closing down an event with Confederate reenactors is never really easy for a black guy. Let’s face it, the Confederates lost the… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“It is to point out that at this late hour, the totems of the empire of slavery—chief among them, its flag—still enjoy… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course. And I've talked to a lot of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
“The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“In the closing years of John Wesley’s life, he became a friend of William Wilberforce. In England, Wilberforce was a great champion… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image